¹⁹ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

Jesus Forbids Sectarianism^(A)

^49 (B)Now John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow with us.”

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever ^(A)the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that ^(B)every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become ^[a]guilty before God.

²² And he said to him, ^(A)‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. ^(B)You knew that I was an austere man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

^31 (A)The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a ^(B)greater than Solomon is here. ³² The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for ^(C)they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.

^41 (A)The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and ^(B)condemn it, ^(C)because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. ^42 (D)The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

²⁷ And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. ²⁸ But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, ^(A)surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.