27. And if I throw out demons by the authority of Beelzebul, then by whose authority do your followers throw them out? Therefore, they will be your judges.
28. But if I throw out demons by the power of God’s Spirit, then God’s kingdom has already overtaken you.
29. Can people go into a house that belongs to a strong man and steal his possessions, unless they first tie up the strong man? Then they can rob his house.
30. Whoever isn’t with me is against me, and whoever doesn’t gather with me scatters.
31. “Therefore, I tell you that people will be forgiven for every sin and insult to God. But insulting the Holy Spirit won’t be forgiven.
32. And whoever speaks a word against the Human One will be forgiven. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit won’t be forgiven, not in this age or in the age that is coming.
33. "Either consider the tree good and its fruit good, or consider the tree rotten and its fruit rotten. A tree is known by its fruit.
34. Children of snakes! How can you speak good things while you are evil? What fills the heart comes out of the mouth.
35. Good people bring out good things from their good treasure. But evil people bring out evil things from their evil treasure.
36. I tell you that people will have to answer on Judgment Day for every useless word they speak.
37. By your words you will be either judged innocent or condemned as guilty."
38. At that time some of the legal experts and the Pharisees requested of Jesus, "Teacher, we would like to see a sign from you."
39. But he replied, “An evil and unfaithful generation searches for a sign, but it won’t receive any sign except Jonah’s sign.
40. Just as Jonah was in the whale’s belly for three days and three nights, so the Human One will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.