"Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand;

if a household be divided against itself, that household cannot stand;

and if Satan has revolted against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand. Nay, he meets his end!

"This kind can only be cast out by prayer," he replied.

"If your hand cause you to stumble, cut it off! It is better to be maimed and to enter into life than to have two hands and go away into hell, into the fire that cannot be put out.

In the same way the high priests also, as well as the Scribes, kept on mocking him to themselves. "He saved others," they said, "but himself he cannot save.