Matthew 12:27

Good News Translation

You say that I drive out demons because Beelzebul gives me the power to do so. Well, then, who gives your followers the power to drive them out? What your own followers do proves that you are wrong!

Cross References

Matthew 10:25

So a pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and a slave like his master. If the head of the family is called Beelzebul, the members of the family will be called even worse names!

Matthew 4:24

The news about him spread through the whole country of Syria, so that people brought to him all those who were sick, suffering from all kinds of diseases and disorders: people with demons, and epileptics, and paralyzed people—and Jesus healed them all.

Matthew 9:34

But the Pharisees said, “It is the chief of the demons who gives Jesus the power to drive out demons.”

Luke 11:19

If this is how I drive them out, how do your followers drive them out? Your own followers prove that you are wrong!

Luke 19:22

He said to him, ‘You bad servant! I will use your own words to condemn you! You know that I am a hard man, taking what is not mine and reaping what I have not planted.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.