²⁰ The crowd answered, ^(A)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”

²⁰ Many of them said, ^(A)“He has a demon, and ^(B)is insane; why listen to him?”

Before Abraham Was, I Am

⁴⁸ The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ^(A)have a demon?”

⁵² The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! ^(A)Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet ^(B)you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(C)taste death.’

^21 (A)And when ^(B)his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He ^(C)is out of his mind.”

Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

²² And ^(D)the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, ^(E)“He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”

³⁰ for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”

²⁴ And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, ^(A)you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”

²⁴ But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, ^(A)“It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”

¹⁸ For John came ^(A)neither eating ^(B)nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ ¹⁹ The Son of Man came ^(C)eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, ^(D)a friend of ^(E)tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”^[a]

²⁵ It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. ^(A)If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign^[a] those of his household.