22 The people dbrought a man to Jesus. He was blind and he ecould not speak. He had a fdemon in him. Jesus ghealed the man and he could talk and see again. 23 All the people were hamazed. They said: ‘Maybe Jesus is the iSon of David, the jMessiah. kCould He be?’ 24 When the lteachers_of_the_Laws heard this, they said: ‘Jesus mchases_out_demons but nBeelzebul, the oleader of the pdemons, helps Him to do it.’ 25 Jesus qknew what they were thinking and He said to them: ‘When the people of a rland fight with each other, they will not live very long. And when a family can not work together, that family will not stay together. 26 What you say is that sSatan drives out Satan. If Satan fights tagainst himself, that will be the end of him. 27 And if uBeelzebul helps Me to vchase_demons out of people, who then is helping your own wfollowers that chase_demons out of people? Your own followers show that you are wrong. 28 It is the xSpirit of God who helps Me to ychase_out_demons and that shows that God has started to zrule over you. 29 It will not be easy for a person to go into the home of a strong man and steal his money and things. No, he must first atie the strong man, then he can take everything in his house. 30 A person who is not for Me is bagainst Me. If you do not help to bring people to God, then you are cchasing them away from God. 31 I tell you this and it is sure: God will dforgive people everything when they esin and say bad things fagainst God. But if a person says anything bad against the gHoly_Spirit, then God will never forgive that person. 32 If someone says something bad hagainst the iSon of man, God will jforgive him, but if anyone says anything bad against the kHoly_Spirit, then God will never forgive him, not in lthis_life, or in the life that will come after this_life.