Mark 3:23

23 et convocatis eis in parabolis dicebat illis quomodo potest Satanas Satanan eicere

Mark 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?

Mark 3:23 In-Context

21 et cum audissent sui exierunt tenere eum dicebant enim quoniam in furorem versus est

22 et scribae qui ab Hierosolymis descenderant dicebant quoniam Beelzebub habet et quia in principe daemonum eicit daemonia

23 et convocatis eis in parabolis dicebat illis quomodo potest Satanas Satanan eicere

24 et si regnum in se dividatur non potest stare regnum illud

25 et si domus super semet ipsam dispertiatur non poterit domus illa stare