If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation."

yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. And when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a lonely place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

But if that servant is wicked and says to himself, 'My master is staying away a long time,'

Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the rooster crowed.

Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.

"He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.

And when it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself also become a disciple of Jesus.