I assure you: People will be forgiven for all sins and whatever blasphemies they may blaspheme.

When Herodias’s own daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. The king said to the girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you.”

So he swore oaths to her: “Whatever you ask me I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is Corban’” (that is, a gift committed to the temple),

But I tell you that Elijah really has come, and they did whatever they pleased to him, just as it is written about him.”

So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say. On the contrary, whatever is given to you in that hour—say it. For it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.