19. But if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel them? For this reason they will be your judges!
20. But if I expel demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you!
21. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.
22. But when a stronger man attacks him and conquers him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted and distributes his plunder.
23. The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters.
24. “Whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it. It says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came out.’
25. And when it arrives it finds the house swept and put in order.
26. Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first!”
27. Now it happened that as he said these things, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!”