²⁸ I tell you this: God can forgive all the wrong things that people do. He can also forgive people who say bad things against him. ²⁹ But God will never forgive people who say bad things against the Holy Spirit. Those people will always be guilty of a terrible sin.’

³⁰ Jesus said that to the teachers of God's Law, because they had said, ‘Jesus has a bad spirit in him.’