Luke 11:10-27

¹⁰Because everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

¹¹And which father among you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if a fish, will he give him a snake instead of a fish?

¹²Or if he asks for an egg, will he give him a scorpion?

¹³If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

¹⁴Then He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. As a result, when the demon had gone out the mute spoke! And the crowds marveled.

¹⁵But some of them said, “It's by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, that he casts out demons.”

¹⁶While others kept asking Him for a sign from heaven, testing.

¹⁷But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against itself falls.

¹⁸So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand?—since you say I cast out demons by Beelzebul!

¹⁹Further, if I am casting out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

²⁰But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you.

²¹“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his possessions are safe.

²²But when someone stronger than he attacks, he overcomes him, takes away all his armor in which he trusted, and distributes his spoils.

²³“He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

²⁴“Whenever an unclean spirit goes out from a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest; and not finding any it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came out.’

²⁵And coming it finds it swept and put in order.

²⁶Then it goes and picks up seven other spirits, more malignant than itself, and they go in and live there; so the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

²⁷And then, as He was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked!”