Matthew 12:27 - Easy To Read Version

²⁷ You say that I use the power of Beelzebul to force out demons. {\cf2\super [173]} If that is true, then what power do your people use when they force out demons? So your own people will prove that you are wrong.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And if I drive out the demons by [help of] Beelzebub, by whose [help] do your sons drive them out? For this reason they shall be your judges.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.

Common English Bible

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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your own sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges.

Matthew 12:27 Cross References

Matthew 10:25

A student should be satisfied to become like his teacher. A servant should be satisfied to become like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul (the devil), then the other members of the family will be called worse names!

Matthew 4:24

The news about Jesus spread all over Syria. And people brought all the sick people to Jesus. These sick people were suffering from different kinds of diseases and pain. Some people were suffering with very bad pain, some people had demons {\cf2\super [55]} inside them, some people were epileptics, {\cf2\super [56]} and some people were paralyzed (crippled). Jesus healed all these people.

Matthew 9:34

But the Pharisees {\cf2\super [116]} said, “The leader of demons {\cf2\super [117]} (the devil) is the one that gives him (Jesus) power to force demons out.”

Luke 11:19

But if I use the power of Beelzebul to force out demons, then what power do your people use when they force out demons? So your own people will prove that you are wrong.

Luke 19:22

Then the king said to the servant, ‘You bad servant! I will use your own words to condemn you. You said that I am a hard man. You said that I even take money that I didn’t earn and gather food that I didn’t grow.

Romans 3:19

These things the law {\cf2\super [28]} says are for the people that are under the law. This stops all \{Jewish\} people from making excuses and brings the whole world (Jews and non-Jews) under God’s judgment.