18. So then, if Satan is also divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebub that I cast out demons.
19. But if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your own sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.
20. Moreover, if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then certainly the kingdom of God has overtaken you.
21. When a strong armed man guards his entrance, the things that he possesses are at peace.
22. But if a stronger one, overwhelming him, has defeated him, he will take away all his weapons, in which he trusted, and he will distribute his spoils.
23. Whoever is not with me, is against me. And whoever does not gather with me, scatters.
24. When an unclean spirit has departed from a man, he walks through waterless places, seeking rest. And not finding any, he says: 'I will return to my house, from which I departed.'
25. And when he has arrived, he finds it swept clean and decorated.
26. Then he goes, and he takes in seven other spirits with him, more wicked than himself, and they enter and live there. And so, the end of that man is made worse the beginning."
27. And it happened that, when he was saying these things, a certain woman from the crowd, lifting up her voice, said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you."
28. Then he said, "Yes, but moreover: blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it."
29. Then, as the crowds were quickly gathering, he began to say: "This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign. But no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
30. For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.