²⁰ Many of them said, “He has a demon and He is mad [insane—He raves and rambles]. Why listen to Him?”

³⁶ [if that is true] then do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and set apart for Himself and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

²⁴ But the Pharisees heard it and said, “This man ^[a]casts out demons only by [the help of] Beelzebul (Satan) the prince of the demons.”

²⁵ Knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, “Any kingdom that is divided against itself is being laid waste; and no city or house divided against itself will [continue to] stand. ²⁶ If Satan casts out Satan [that is, his demons], he has become divided against himself and disunited; how then will his kingdom stand? ²⁷ If I cast out the demons by [the help of] Beelzebul (Satan), by whom do your sons drive them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

²² The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by ^[a]Beelzebul (Satan),” and “He is driving out the demons by the [power of the] ruler of the demons.”^(A)

³⁰ [Jesus said this] because the scribes and Pharisees were [attributing His miracles to Satan by] saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

¹⁵ But some of them said, “He drives out demons by [the power of] ^[a]Beelzebul (Satan), the ruler of the demons.”