Some teachers of the law who had come down from Jerusalem said, “He is controlled by Beelzebul! He’s driving out demons by the power of the prince of demons.”
It’s enough for students to be like their teachers and for slaves to be like their masters. If the head of the household has been called Beelzebul, the prince of demons, what should the others who live in the house expect to be called?
At this they exclaimed, “Now we know you’re controlled by a demon! Abraham died, and so did the prophets. But you’re saying that whoever obeys your word will never die.
One day when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of the law were among those sitting there and listening to him. They’d come from every village in Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick.