◄ Mark 3:23 ►
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Good News Translation
So Jesus called them to him and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?

New Revised Standard Version
And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told the people to gather around him. Then he spoke to them in riddles and said: How can Satan force himself out?

New American Bible
Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan?

in parables.

Psalm 49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

Matthew 13:34 All these things Jesus spoke in parables to the multitudes: and without parables he did not speak to them.

How.

Matthew 12:25-30 And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. . . .

Luke 11:17-23 But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and house upon house shall fall. . . .

Context
A House Divided
…22And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils. 23And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan? 24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan: for it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and him only shalt thou serve.

Matthew 12:25
And Jesus knowing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be made desolate: and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Matthew 13:3
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Mark 3:24
And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Mark 4:2
And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his doctrine:

Mark 4:11
And he said to them: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but to them that are without, all things are done in parables:

Mark 12:1
And he began to speak to them in parables: A certain man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and dug a place for the winefat and built a tower and let it to husbandmen: and went into a far country.

Luke 11:17
But he seeing their thoughts, said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself shall be brought to desolation; and house upon house shall fall.

Mark 3:22
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