²²Then was brought to him a demoniac, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. ²³And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, ‘Is this the Son of David?’ ²⁴but the Pharisees having heard, said, ‘This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.’ ²⁵And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, ‘Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand, ²⁶and if the Adversary doth cast out the Adversary, against himself he was divided, how then doth his kingdom stand?

²⁷‘And if I, by Beelzeboul, do cast out the demons, your sons—by whom do they cast out? because of this they—they shall be your judges.

²⁸‘But if I, by the Spirit of God, do cast out the demons, then come already unto you did the reign of God.

²⁹‘Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.

³⁰‘He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.

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