Matthew 12:24 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “This man does not drive out evil spirits except by [the power of] Beelzebub, the chief of evil spirits.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, This Man drives out demons only by and with the help of Beelzebub, the prince of demons.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.

Common English Bible

²⁴ When the Pharisees heard, they said, “This man throws out demons only by the authority of Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out the devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

Matthew 12:24 Cross References

Matthew 10:25

A disciple is doing well if he can be [as good] as his teacher, and the slave [as good] as his master. If they have called the master of the house [i.e., Jesus] Beelzebub [i.e., the chief of evil spirits. See Mark 3:22], how much more [likely] will they call members of his household [i.e., the disciples] the same thing!

Matthew 9:32

As they went on their way a deaf-mute, dominated by an evil spirit, was brought to Jesus.

Matthew 9:34

But the Pharisees said, “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits.”

Mark 3:22

And the experts in the Law of Moses who had come down from Jerusalem were saying [Note: This followed the incident of Jesus healing a man with an evil spirit. See Matt. 12:22-28], “He has Beelzebub [in him],” and “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits.”

Luke 11:14

[Once] Jesus was driving out an evil spirit from a [man who was] mute. And it happened when the evil spirit left [him] that the [former] mute began to speak. And the crowds were amazed.

Luke 11:15

But some of the people said, “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] Beelzebub, the chief of evil spirits.”