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Zechariah 9

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¹ Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

² Jesus sternly warned them [again and again] not to tell who He was.

³ He went up on the hillside and called those whom He Himself wanted and chose; and they came to Him.

⁴ And He appointed[4] twelve [disciples], so that they would be with Him [for instruction] and so that He could send them out to preach [the gospel as apostles—that is, as His special messengers, personally chosen representatives],

⁵ and to have authority and power to cast out demons.

⁶ He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter),

⁷ and James, the son of[5] Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder");

⁸ and [He also appointed] Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew (Nathanael), and Matthew (Levi the tax collector), and Thomas, and[6] James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus (Judas the son of James), and Simon the Zealot;

⁹ and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.

¹⁰ Then He came to a[7] house [in Capernaum], and a crowd formed again, so [many people] that Jesus and His disciples could not even eat a meal [together].

¹¹ When His own family heard this they went to take custody of Him; for they were saying, "He is out of His mind."

¹² The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by[8] Beelzebul (Satan)," and "He is driving out the demons by the [power of the] ruler of the demons."

¹³ So He called them to Himself and spoke to them in[9] parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?

¹⁴ If a kingdom is divided [split into factions and rebelling] against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

¹⁵ And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

¹⁶ And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.

¹⁷ But no one can go into a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first overpowers and ties up the strong man, and then he will ransack and rob his house.

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1	Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"
2	Jesus sternly warned them [again and again] not to tell who He was.
3	He went up on the hillside and called those whom He Himself wanted and chose; and they came to Him.
4	And He appointed[4] twelve [disciples], so that they would be with Him [for instruction] and so that He could send them out to preach [the gospel as apostles—that is, as His special messengers, personally chosen representatives],
5	and to have authority and power to cast out demons.
6	He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom He gave the name Peter),
7	and James, the son of[5] Zebedee, and John the brother of James (to them He gave the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder");
8	and [He also appointed] Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew (Nathanael), and Matthew (Levi the tax collector), and Thomas, and[6] James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus (Judas the son of James), and Simon the Zealot;
9	and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.
10	Then He came to a[7] house [in Capernaum], and a crowd formed again, so [many people] that Jesus and His disciples could not even eat a meal [together].
11	When His own family heard this they went to take custody of Him; for they were saying, "He is out of His mind."
12	The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by[8] Beelzebul (Satan)," and "He is driving out the demons by the [power of the] ruler of the demons."
13	So He called them to Himself and spoke to them in[9] parables, "How can Satan drive out Satan?
14	If a kingdom is divided [split into factions and rebelling] against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
15	And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
16	And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.
17	But no one can go into a strong man's house and steal his property unless he first overpowers and ties up the strong man, and then he will ransack and rob his house.

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