²³ And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

³⁴ All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

⁴ I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

¹⁰ Then saith Jesus to him, `Go -- Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

²⁵ And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand,

²⁶ and if the Adversary doth cast out the Adversary, against himself he was divided, how then doth his kingdom stand?

²⁷ `And if I, by Beelzeboul, do cast out the demons, your sons -- by whom do they cast out? because of this they -- they shall be your judges.

²⁸ `But if I, by the Spirit of God, do cast out the demons, then come already unto you did the reign of God.

²⁹ `Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.

³⁰ `He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.

² and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

¹⁷ And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;

¹⁸ and if also the Adversary against himself was divided, how shall his kingdom be made to stand? for ye say, by Beelzeboul is my casting forth the demons.

¹⁹ `But if I by Beelzeboul cast forth the demons -- your sons, by whom do they cast forth? because of this your judges they shall be;

²⁰ but if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.

²¹ `When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

²² but when the stronger than he, having come upon `him', may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;

²³ he who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me doth scatter.