Mark 3:23 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 3:23

So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?

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ASV

And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

KJV

And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

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J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

We all know how painful it is to have our conduct misunderstood and misrepresented, when we are doing right. It is a trial which our Lord Jesus Christ had to endure continually, all through His earthly ministry. We have an instance in the passage before us. The "Scribes who came down from Jerusalem" saw the miracles which He worked. They could not deny their reality. What then did they do? They accused our blessed Savior of being in league and union with the devil. They said, "He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casts he out devils."

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
προσκαλεσάμενος	proskalesamenos	having called to [Him]	G4341 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	them	G846 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
παραβολαῖς	parabolais	parables	G3850 →
ἔλεγεν	elegen	He was speaking	G3004 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them:	G846 →
πῶς	pōs	How	G4459 →
δύναται	dunatai	is able	G1410 →
σατανᾶς	satanas	Satan	G4567 →
σατανᾶν	satanan	Satan	G4567 →
ἐκβάλλειν;	ekballein	to cast out?	G1544 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 4:10
“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 6:13–14
  Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
- Deuteronomy 10:20
  You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
- Joshua 24:14
  Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
- Luke 4:8
  But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
- 1 Samuel 7:3
  Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts…
Through
Matthew 13:34
Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.
leads to
- Mark 4:33–34
  With many such parables Jesus spoke the word to them, to the extent that they could understand.
- John 16:25
  I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. An hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you this way, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
Through
Mark 4:2
And He taught them many things in parables, and in His teaching He said,
leads to
- Matthew 13:34–35
  Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. He did not tell them anything without using a parable.