If I, by Beelzebub, cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them
out? Therefore, they shall be your judges. But, if I cast out devils by
the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. And, if
not, then how can someone enter into a strong man's house and spoil his
goods unless he first bind the strong man? Only then is he able to
spoil his house.
He that is not with me is against me. He that gathers not with me
scatters abroad. So I say to you, All manner of sin and blasphemy
against men shall be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
shall not be forgiven.
Whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven Him.
But whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven
Him; not in this world and not in the world to come. Either make the
tree good and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and its
fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? Out
of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man, out of the
good treasure of the heart, brings forth good things. An evil man, out
of the evil of the heart, brings forth evil things.
I say to you, For every idle word that a man speaks, he shall account
for it in the day of judgment. By thy words thou shall be justified and
by thy words thou shall be condemned.
Then, some of the scribes and Pharisees said, Master, we want to see a
sign from thee. But Jesus answered, An evil and adulterous generation
seeks after a sign. There shall be no sign given except the sign of the
prophet Jonas. Just as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment of this generation and shall
condemn it. This is so because they repented at the preaching of Jonas.
Behold, one greater than Jonas is here. The queen of the south shall
rise up in the judgment of this generation and shall condemn it. She
came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of
Solomon and, behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
When an unclean spirit has left a man, he wanders through dry places,
seeking rest, and finds none. Then the unclean spirit says, I will
return to the house from which I came. When he comes, he finds it
empty, swept, and garnished. Then he returns with seven other spirits
more wicked than himself. They go back into the man and dwell there.
Then the last state of that man is worse than the first. This is how it
shall be with this wicked generation.
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