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Mark 3:23

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Demons;   Jesus, the Christ;   Satan;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Jesus Christ;   Magic;   Parable;   Satan;   Suffering;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Parable;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Parables;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Messiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Deceit, Deception, Guile;   Demon, Demoniacal Possession, Demoniacs;   Discourse;   Fig-Tree ;   Holy Spirit (2);   Hypocrisy;   Logia;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Ministry;   Miracles (2);   Questions and Answers;   Teaching of Jesus;   Unpardonable Sin;   Winter ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forgiveness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he summoned them and spoke to them in parables: “How can Satan
King James Version (1611)
And he called them vnto him, and said vnto them in parables, Howe can Satan cast out Satan?
King James Version
And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
English Standard Version
And he called them to him and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
New American Standard Bible
And so He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?
New Century Version
So Jesus called the people together and taught them with stories. He said, "Satan will not force himself out of people.
Amplified Bible
So He called them to Himself and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
Legacy Standard Bible
And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
Berean Standard Bible
So Jesus called them together and began to speak to them in parables: "How can Satan drive 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?
Complete Jewish Bible
But he called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan expel Satan?
Darby Translation
And having called them to [him], he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Easy-to-Read Version
So Jesus called them together and talked to them using some stories. He said, "Satan will not force his own demons out of people.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But he called them vnto him, and said vnto them in parables, How can Satan driue out Sata?
George Lamsa Translation
And Jesus called them, and said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Good News Translation
So Jesus called them to him and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out Satan?
Lexham English Bible
And he called them to himself and was speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan expel Satan?
Literal Translation
And calling them near, He spoke to them in parables, saying , How can Satan cast out Satan?
American Standard Version
And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Bible in Basic English
And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?
Hebrew Names Version
He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Hasatan cast out Hasatan?
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
And Jeshu called them, and by similitudes said to them, How can Satan cast out Satan ?
Murdock Translation
And Jesus called them, and said to them, by similitudes: How can Satan cast out Satan?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he called them vnto hym, & sayde vnto them in parables: Howe can Satan driue out Satan?
English Revised Version
And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
World English Bible
He called them to him, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And calling them to him, he said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Weymouth's New Testament
So He called them to Him, and using figurative language He appealed to them, saying, "How is it possible for Satan to expel Satan?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he clepide hem togidir, and he seide to hem in parablis, Hou may Sathanas caste out Sathanas?
Update Bible Version
And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Webster's Bible Translation
And he called them [to him], and said to them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
New English Translation
So he called them and spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?
New King James Version
So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: "How can Satan cast out Satan?
New Living Translation
Jesus called them over and responded with an illustration. "How can Satan cast out Satan?" he asked.
New Life Bible
Jesus called them to Him and spoke to them in picture-stories. He said, "How can the devil put out the devil?
New Revised Standard
And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, calling them near, in parables, began he to say unto them - How can, Satan, cast, Satan out?
Revised Standard Version
And he called them to him, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he called them vnto him and sayde vnto them in similitudes. How can Satan drive out Satan?
Young's Literal Translation
And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he called them together, and spake vnto them in symilitudes:How can one Sathan dryue out another?
Mace New Testament (1729)
but calling them to him, he said by way of similitude, how can satan dispossess satan?
Simplified Cowboy Version
So Jesus called them all around and told them stories. "How can the devil cast out the devil?

Contextual Overview

22 And the scribes who were come down from Jerusalem, said: He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils. 23 And after he had called them together, he said to them in parables: How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan be risen up against himself, he is divided, and cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 No man can enter into the house of a strong man and rob him of his goods, unless he first bind the strong man, and then shall he plunder his house. 28 Amen I say to you that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and the blasphemies wherewith they shall blaspheme: 29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin. 30 Because they said: He hath an unclean spirit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in parables: Psalms 49:4, Matthew 13:34

How: Matthew 12:25-30, Luke 11:17-23

Reciprocal: Mark 4:2 - by parables

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it sprung up in the earth, and every herb of the ground before it grew: for the Lord God had not rained upon the earth; and there was not a man to till the earth.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth out of which thou wast taken: for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.
Genesis 4:2
And again she brought forth his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, and Cain a husbandman.
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.
Genesis 9:20
And Noe a husbandman began to till the ground, and planted a vineyard.
Ecclesiastes 5:9
(5-8) Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he called them unto him,.... The Jerusalem Scribes, to come nearer to him, and attend to what he had to say in defence of his character and miracles:

and said unto them in parables: similitudes, and proverbial expressions, as the following seem to be,

how can Satan cast out Satan? or one devil cast out another? how unreasonable is it to suppose it? can it ever be thought that such, whose interest it is to unite, would ever oppose and dispossess one another? if therefore, as if he should say, I am Beelzebub, or have him, and he is in me, and I am in confederacy with him; was this the case, can any think I should ever cast him out of others, as I do?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the scribes ... - See the notes at Matthew 12:24-32. The occasion of their saying this was, that he had healed a man possessed with a devil. The scribes, who came from Jerusalem to watch his conduct, charged him with having made a compact or agreement with the prince of the devils.


 
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