The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”
It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,
You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”
You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
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