Matthew 12:27
And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
26So if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
28But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Cross References
Matthew 12:41The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.
Luke 9:49John responded, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in yoʋr name, and we told him to stop because he does not follow us.”
Luke 19:22The king said to him, ‘I will condemn yoʋ by the words coming out of yoʋr own mouth, yoʋ evil servant. Yoʋ knew, did yoʋ, that I was a stern man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 12:23-38
The Sin against the Holy Ghost. 22 Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. 25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or… Read the whole commentary →