A House Divided Cannot Stand

14 And he was expelling a mute demon.[a] Now it happened that when[b] the demon came out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were astonished. 15 But some of them said, “By Beelzebul the ruler of demons he expels demons!” 16 And others, in order to[c] test him,[d] were demanding from him a sign from heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:14 Some manuscripts have “a demon, and it was mute”
  2. Luke 11:14 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came out”)
  3. Luke 11:16 Here “in order to” is supplied as a component of the participle (“test”) which is understood as purpose
  4. Luke 11:16 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation