And others tempting him Others of the Scribes and Pharisees, or Sadducees: sought of him a sign from heaven; (See Gill on Matthew 12:38), (See Gill on Matthew 16:1).
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And Jesus was casting out a fiend [And he was casting out a fiend], and it was dumb. And when he had cast out the fiend, the dumb man spake; and the people wondered.
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And some of them said, In Beelzebub, prince of devils, he casteth out devils.
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And others tempting asked of him a token from heaven.
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And as he saw the thoughts of them, he said to them, Every realm parted against itself, shall be desolate, and an house shall fall on an house. [+Forsooth he, as he saw the thoughts of them, said to them, Every realm parted against itself, shall be desolated, and an house shall fall upon an house.]
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And if Satan be parted against himself, how shall his realm stand? For ye say, that I cast out fiends in Beelzebub.