Luke 11:18-32

¹⁸If Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

¹⁹If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? Because of this, they will be your judges.

²⁰But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.

²¹When a strong man who is fully armed guards his own house, his goods are safe,

²²but when a stronger man overcomes him, the stronger man takes away the armor from the man, and plunders the man's possessions.

²³The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters.

²⁴When an unclean spirit has gone away from a man, it passes through waterless places and looks for rest. Finding none, it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.'

²⁵Having returned, it finds that house swept out and put in order.

²⁶Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all come in to live there. Then the final condition of that man becomes worse than the first.”

²⁷It happened that, as he said these things, a certain woman raised her voice above the crowd and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you.”

²⁸But he said, “Rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.”

²⁹As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, though no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

³⁰For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so too the Son of Man will be a sign to this generation.

³¹The Queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and see, someone greater than Solomon is here.

³²The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation of people and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and see, someone greater than Jonah is here.