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Jesus talks about Satan

20 Then Jesus went into a house. A crowd of people came together there again. There were so many people that Jesus and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 People told his family what was happening. So they went to take him away with them. They thought that Jesus was crazy.[a]

22 Some teachers of God's Law came from Jerusalem. They said, ‘Jesus has a bad spirit called Beelzebul in him. That is Satan, the one who rules all the bad spirits. This man can send bad spirits out of people because Satan gives him authority.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:21 Jesus' family lived in Nazareth, which was 40 kilometres away from Capernaum.
  2. 3:22 Beelzebul is another name for Satan. They are both names for God's greatest enemy.