Mark 3:22-30

22Some teachers of God's Law came from Jerusalem. They said, ‘Jesus has a bad spirit called Beelzebul in him. That is Satan, the one who rules all the bad spirits. This man can send bad spirits out of people because Satan gives him authority.’

23So Jesus spoke to the teachers of God's Law. He said, ‘Come here and listen to me.’ He used stories to explain to them, ‘Satan would not fight against himself!

24If armies in the same country start to fight each other, then they will destroy their own country.

25And if the people in one family start to fight against each other, they will destroy their own family.

26So Satan would not attack himself. If he did that, he would destroy his own power. That would be the end of him.

27Nobody can easily go into the house of a strong man to rob him. To do that, he must first tie up the strong man. Then he can take away all that man's valuable things.

28I tell you this: God can forgive all the wrong things that people do. He can also forgive people who say bad things against him.

29But God will never forgive people who say bad things against the Holy Spirit. Those people will always be guilty of a terrible sin.’

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