Marc 3:23

23 Jésus les appela, et leur dit sous forme de paraboles: Comment Satan peut-il chasser Satan?

Marc 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?

Marc 3:23 In-Context

21 Les parents de Jésus, ayant appris ce qui se passait, vinrent pour se saisir de lui; car ils disaient: Il est hors de sens.

22 Et les scribes, qui étaient descendus de Jérusalem, dirent: Il est possédé de Béelzébul; c'est par le prince des démons qu'il chasse les démons.

23 Jésus les appela, et leur dit sous forme de paraboles: Comment Satan peut-il chasser Satan?

24 Si un royaume est divisé contre lui-même, ce royaume ne peut subsister;

25 et si une maison est divisée contre elle-même, cette maison ne peut subsister.