11. “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
12. Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?
13. 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?”
14. He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marvelled.
15. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
16. Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
17. But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.
18. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
19. But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
20. But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.
21. “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.
22. But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armour in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.
23. “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.
24. 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.’
25. When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.