"Blessed are you when men shall hate you, And excommunicate you and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of man.

"Master," said John, "we saw a man who was casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following us."

Once he was casting out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people wondered.

But some of them said, "It is by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that he cast out demons."

"Do you say that I am casting out demons by the power of Beelzebub? If I then am casting out demons by Beelzebub, by whom are your sons casting them out? They therefore shall be your judges.

"But if it is by the finger of God that I am casting out demons, then the kingdom of God is come upon you.

"'depart from me, all of you, you evil-doers.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves cast out.

"Go, tell that fox," he answered, "'Lo, today and tomorrow I am continuing to cast out demons and perform cures, and on the third day I finish my course.'