and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then can his realm stand?

That same day Jesus went out of the house and seated himself by the seaside;

he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.

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

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

I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death till they see the Son of man coming himself to reign."

Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the Realm of heaven;

they brought the ass and the colt and put their clothes on them. Jesus seated himself on them,

Whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be uplifted.

But if the bad servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of coming,'

Then he flung down the silver pieces in the temple and went off and hung himself.

"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

And Jesus himself met them, saying, "Hail!" So they went up to him and caught hold of his feet and worshipped him;

and if Satan has risen against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, he comes to an end.

When he was by himself his adherents and the twelve asked him about the parable,

All night and day among the tombs and the hills he shrieked and gashed himself with stones.

So taking him aside from the crowd by himself, he put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva,

Then he called the crowd to him with his disciples and said to them, "If anyone wishes to follow me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and so follow me;

They were on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus walking in front of them: the disciples were in dismay and the company who followed were afraid. So once again he took the twelve aside and proceeded to tell them what was going to happen to himself.

for the Son of man himself has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Then they brought the colt to Jesus, and when they had put their clothes on it Jesus seated himself.

David himself said in the holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'

Peter followed him at a distance till he got inside the courtyard of the high priest, where he sat down with the attendants to warm himself at the fire.

and when she noticed Peter warming himself she looked at him and said, "You were with Jesus of Nazaret too."

So, too, the high priests made fun of him to themselves with the scribes; "he saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself!

Joseph of Arimathaea, a councillor of good position who himself was on the outlook for the Reign of God, ventured to go to Pilate and ask for the body of Jesus.

while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

Now as people's expectations were roused and as everybody thought to himself about John, "Can he be the Christ,"

When his host the Pharisee noticed this, he said to himself, "If he was a prophet he would know what sort of a woman this is who is touching him; for she is a sinner."

Now it happened that while he was praying by himself his disciples were beside him. So he inquired of them, "Who do the crowds say I am?"

He said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross day after day, and so follow me;

What profit will it be for a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?

After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

and if Satan is divided against himself, how can his realm stand? You say I am casting out daemons by Beelzebul?

So fares the man who lays up treasure for himself instead of gaining the riches of God."

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

But if that servant says to himself, 'My lord and master is long of arriving,' and if he starts to beat the menservants and maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,

For everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

The factor said to himself, 'What am I to do, now that my master is taking the factorship away from me? I am too weak to dig, I am ashamed to beg.

For a while he would not, but afterwards he said to himself, 'Though I have no reverence for God and no respect even for man,

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer.

I tell you, he went home accepted by God rather than the other man; for everyone who uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted."

"A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

Why, David himself says in the book of psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at my right hand,

and ascertaining that he came under the jurisdiction of Herod, he remitted him to Herod, who himself was in Jerusalem during those days.

The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"

and during their conversation and discussion Jesus himself approached and walked beside them,

Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men,

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

and far more of them believed on account of what he said himself.

(for Jesus himself testified that a prophet enjoys no honour in his own country);

But this only made the Jews more eager to kill him, because he not merely broke the sabbath but actually spoke of God as his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;

for as the Father has life in himself, so too he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

The Father who sent me has also borne testimony to me himself; but his voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,

(He said this to test Philip, for he knew what he was going to do himself.)

Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

but as they persisted with their question, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent among you throw the first stone at her";

So the Jews said, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, 'Where I go, you cannot come'?"

At this they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus concealed himself and made his way out of the temple.

But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself."

That was why the man's parents said, "He is of age, ask himself.")

And Jesus came across a young ass and seated himself on it; as it is written,

God will glorify him in Himself and glorify him at once.

for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God.

Now the servants and the attendants were standing and warming themselves at a charcoal fire which they had lit (for it was cold), and Peter also stood beside them and warmed himself.

The Jews retorted, "But we have a Law, and by [our] Law he is bound to die, because he has made himself out to be God's Son."

This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"

and he went away, carrying the cross by himself, to the spot called the 'place of the skull' ??the Hebrew name is Golgotha;

Upon this the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, went inside too, and when he saw for himself he was convinced.

After that, Jesus disclosed himself once more to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. It was in this way.

After his sufferings he had shown them that he was alive by a number of proofs, revealing himself to them for forty days and discussing the affairs of God's Realm.

For the promise is meant for you and for your children and for all who are far off, for anyone whom the Lord our God may call to himself."

at their second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh was informed of Joseph's lineage.

Now for some time previous a man called Simon had been practising magic arts in the town, to the utter astonishment of the Samaritan nation; he made himself out to be a great person,

indeed Simon himself believed, and after his baptism kept close to Philip, utterly astonished to see the signs and striking miracles which were taking place.

By humbling himself he had his doom removed. Who can tell his family? For his life is cut off from the earth.

So the eunuch said to Philip, "Pray, who is the prophet speaking about? Is it himself or someone else?"

while Philip found himself at Azotus, where he passed on, preaching the gospel in every town, till he reached Caesarea.

On a stated day Herod arrayed himself in royal robes, took his seat on the dais, and proceeded to harangue them.

though as the bountiful Giver he did not leave himself without a witness, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, giving you food and joy to your heart's content."

When the jailer started from his sleep and saw the prison-doors open, he drew his sword and was on the point of killing himself, supposing the prisoners had made their escape;

So he despatched two of his assistants to Macedonia, Timotheus and Erastus, while he himself stayed on awhile in Asia.

Some of the mob concluded it must be Alexander, as the Jews pushed him to the front. So Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to defend himself before the people;

but Paul went downstairs, threw himself upon him, and embraced him. "Do not lament," he said, "the life is still in him."

Then Paul associated himself with the men next day; he had himself purified along with them and went into the temple to give notice of the time when the days of purification would be completed ??the time, that is to say, when the sacrifice could be offered for each one of them.

But when two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and as Felix wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, he left Paul still in custody.

Festus replied that Paul would be kept in custody at Caesarea, but that he himself meant to leave for Caesarea before long ??5 "when," he added, "your competent authorities can come down with me and charge the man with whatever crime he has committed."

As Festus wanted to ingratiate himself with the Jews, he asked Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"

I told them Romans were not in the habit of giving up any man until the accused met the accusers face to face and had a chance of defending himself against the impeachment.

However the officer let himself be persuaded by the captain and the owner rather than by anything Paul could say,

When we did reach Rome, Paul got permission to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

For whatever is to be known of God is plain to them; God himself has made it plain ??20 for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse.

it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;