Marcos 3:23

23 Então Jesus os chamou e lhes disse por parábolas: Como pode Satanás expulsar Satanás?

Marcos 3:23 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 3:23

And he called them unto him
The Jerusalem Scribes, to come nearer to him, and attend to what he had to say in defence of his character and miracles:

and said unto them in parables:
similitudes, and proverbial expressions, as the following seem to be,

how can Satan cast out Satan?
or one devil cast out another? how unreasonable is it to suppose it? can it ever be thought that such, whose interest it is to unite, would ever oppose and dispossess one another? if therefore, as if he should say, I am Beelzebub, or have him, and he is in me, and I am in confederacy with him; was this the case, can any think I should ever cast him out of others, as I do?

Marcos 3:23 In-Context

21 Quando os seus ouviram isso, saíram para o prender; porque diziam: Ele está fora de si.

22 E os escribas que tinham descido de Jerusalém diziam: Ele está possesso de Belzebu; e: É pelo príncipe dos demônios que expulsa os demônios.

23 Então Jesus os chamou e lhes disse por parábolas: Como pode Satanás expulsar Satanás?

24 Pois, se um reino se dividir contra si mesmo, tal reino não pode subsistir;

25 ou, se uma casa se dividir contra si mesma, tal casa não poderá subsistir;