Matthew 12:27

By whom do your children? Having shown the absurdity of the argument set forth by the Pharisees, Christ now confronts them with a dilemma. Obviously, some Pharisees did claim to be able to exorcise evil spirits, or Jesus would not have presented this as a fact. Josephus relates that such attempts were at least made, and gives an example (Antiquities viii. 2. 5 [45-49]). The word “children” refers, not to natural offspring of the men to whom Christ spoke, but to their adherents. Thus in OT times students in the schools of the prophets were commonly called “sons of the prophets” (see on 2 Kings 6:1).