If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom will not be able to stand.

They were even more astonished and said to one another, “Then who can be saved?”

“Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

So he called them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan?

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

He told them, “This kind can come out only by prayer.”

He said to them, “Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

and his clothes became radiantly white, more so than any launderer in the world could bleach them.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law – were mocking him among themselves: “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

But no one is able to enter a strong man’s house and steal his property unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can thoroughly plunder his house.

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”