him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he? 011:012 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he? 011:013 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" 011:014 He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. It happened, when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled. 011:015 But some of them said, "He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons." 011:016 Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven. 011:017 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls. 011:018 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 011:019 But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges. 011:020 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come to you. 011:021 "When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. 011:022 But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils. 011:023 "He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn't gather with me scatters. 011:024 The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, 'I will turn back to my house from which I came out.' 011:025 When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order. 011:026 Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first." 011:027 It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!" 011:028 But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it." 011:029 When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet. 011:030 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation. 011:031 The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.