13. If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
14. He was driving out a demon [that was] mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute person spoke and the crowds were amazed.
15. Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons.”
16. Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven.
17. But he knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house.
18. And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons.
19. If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges.