Mark 3:30
Jesus made this statement because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”
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ASV
because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
KJV
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit." For those who neither believe in the Holy Spirit nor believe He is God, nor believe He is indeed God but less than the Father and the Son, and confess this, being led by human ignorance …
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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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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.
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John 10:20Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and insane. Why would you listen to Him?”
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“You have a demon,” the crowd replied. “Who is trying to kill You?”
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When His family heard about this, they went out to take custody of Him, saying, “He is out of His mind.”
“Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
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Mark 3:22And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”
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It is enough for a disciple to be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his…
Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that He drives out demons.”
