13. “If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart Spirit to those asking Him!”
14. And He was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it came to be, when the demon had gone out, that the dumb spoke. And the crowds marvelled.
15. But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Be‛elzebul, the ruler of the demons,”
16. and others, trying Him, were seeking from Him a sign from heaven.
17. And He, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every reign divided against itself is laid waste, and a house divided against a house falls.
18. “So if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his reign stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Be‛elzebul.
19. “Now if I cast out demons by Be‛elzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Because of this they shall be your judges.
20. “But if I cast out demons by the finger of Elohim, then the reign of Elohim has come upon you.
21. “When a strong man, having been well armed, watches over his own court, his possessions are in peace.
22. “But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armour in which he trusted, and divides his booty.
23. “He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
24. “When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest. And finding none, he says, ‘I shall return to my house from which I came.’
25. “And when he comes, he finds it swept and decorated,
26. then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
27. And it came to be, as He was saying this, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which You sucked!”
28. But He said, “Blessed rather are those hearing the Word of Elohim and watching over it!”
29. And while the crowds were thronging, He began to say, “This generation is wicked. It seeks a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of Yonah the prophet.
30. “For as Yonah became a sign to the Ninewites, so also the Son of Aḏam shall be to this generation.
31. “The sovereigness of the South shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and shall condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shelomoh, and look, a greater than Shelomoh is here.
32. “The men of Ninewĕh shall rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Yonah, and look, a greater than Yonah is here.