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and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Cananite,
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and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house.
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And come together again doth a multitude, so that they are not able even to eat bread;
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and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,
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and the scribes who [are] from Jerusalem having come down, said -- `He hath Beelzeboul,' and -- `By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'
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And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?
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and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;
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and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand;
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and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.
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`No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.
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`Verily I say to you, that all the sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and evil speakings with which they might speak evil,