13 If you then, being evil, know how to give ^agood gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”  ‡

14 ^aAnd He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. So it was, when the demon had gone out, that the mute spoke; and the multitudes marveled.  ‡

17 ^aBut ^bHe, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls.  ‡

18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub.