Verse 16
Luke 11:16
Free Bible Version
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If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? You say that I cast out demons using the power of Beelzebub.
Original Language Text
greek
ἕτεροι δὲ πειράζοντες σημεῖον ⸂ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἐζήτουν παρ’ αὐτοῦ⸃.
English Translation
Others, testing him, sought a sign from heaven.
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Chapter 11 Context
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Once Yashua (Jesus) was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples asked him...
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Yashua (Jesus) told them, “When you pray, say, ‘Father, let your name be honored as holy. May your k...
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Forgive us our sins, just as we forgive everyone who sins against us. Keep us from temptation.’”
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Yashua (Jesus) went on to tell them, “Say you have a friend and you go to him in the middle of the n...
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because a friend of mine has come to visit me, and I don't have any food to give him.’
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Your friend in the house might reply, ‘Don't bother me—I've already locked the door, and I and my ch...
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I tell you, even though he refuses to get up and give you anything, despite you being his friend, if...
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I tell you: ask, and you shall receive; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opene...
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For everyone who asks, receives; and everyone who seeks, finds; and to everyone who knocks the door...
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Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, would give him a snake instead?
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Or if he asks for an egg, would you give him a scorpion?
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So if you, even though you are evil, still know to give good gifts to your children, how much more w...
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Yashua (Jesus) was driving out a demon that had made a man dumb. When the demon had left, the man wh...
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But some of them said, “He is driving out demons using the power of Beelzebub, the ruler of demons.”
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Yashua (Jesus) knew what they were thinking and said, “Any kingdom divided against itself will colla...
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If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? You say that I cast out demons using...
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But if I drive out demons by the power of Beelzebub, by whose power do your own people drive them ou...
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However, if I am driving out demons by the power of God (Elohim), then this proves God (Elohim)'s ki...
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When a strong man who is fully armed guards his house, all he owns is safe.
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But if a stronger man comes and defeats him, taking from him all his weapons that he depended on, th...
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Anyone who is not with me is against me, and anyone who doesn't build together with me is breaking i...
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When an evil spirit leaves someone, it goes through the desert looking for a place to stay. When it...
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When it returns, it finds its old home is swept and tidy.
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So it goes and finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. In th...
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As he was speaking, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the womb from where you came and th...
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But Yashua (Jesus) said, “Even more blessed are those who hear God (Elohim)'s word, and follow what...
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As people crowded around him, Yashua (Jesus) began telling them, “This is an evil generation for it'...
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In the same way that Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of man be a sign to...
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The queen of the south will rise in the judgment together with the people of this generation and wil...
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The people of Nineveh rise in the judgment together with this generation, and will condemn it, for t...
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No one lights a lamp and then hides it or places it under a bowl. No, you put it on a lamp stand so...
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Your eye is the light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is full of light. But wh...
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If your whole body is full of light, with no areas of darkness, then it will be completely illuminat...
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After Yashua (Jesus) had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to come and eat with him. So Yash...
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So the Lord told him, “You Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you're fu...
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You're so foolish! Don't you think the one who made the outside made the inside as well?
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If, acting from within, you do acts of kindness to others, then everything will be clean to you.
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Shame on you Pharisees! You pay tithe on herbs and plants, but you neglect justice and the love of G...
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Shame on you Pharisees! You love to have the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with re...
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Shame on you! You are like unmarked graves that people walk over without knowing.”
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One of the experts in religious law reacted, saying, “Teacher, when you talk like this, you're insul...
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Yashua (Jesus) replied, “Shame on you lawyers too! You place burdens on people that are too hard to...
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Shame on you! You build memorial tombs to honor the prophets, but it was your own fathers who killed...
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By doing this you are witnesses showing that you agree with what your fathers did. They killed the p...
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This is why God (Elohim) in his wisdom said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some they will...
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Consequently, this generation will be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets shed from t...
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from the blood of Abel right up to the blood of Zachariah who was killed between the altar and the s...
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Shame on you lawyers! You have removed the key of knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you pr...
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As Yashua (Jesus) was leaving, the religious teachers and the Pharisees began to attack him aggressi...
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They were hoping to catch him out, trying to get him to say something they could use against him.
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