Mark 3:20-27 (Gospel)
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- Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
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- But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “He is out of His mind.”
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- And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebub,” and, “By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons.”
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- So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?
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- If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
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- And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
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- And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.
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- No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.