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What does Mark 3:23 mean?
"He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?"
— Mark 3:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, “He is insane.”
The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he can’t stand, but has an end.
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