Matthew 12:27
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
KJV
καὶ εἰ ἐγὼ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλω τὰ δαιμόνια, οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν ἐν τίνι ἐκβάλλουσιν; διὰ τοῦτο αὐτοὶ κριταὶ ἔσονται ὑμῶν.
Greek NT
Et si ego in Beelzebub ejicio dæmones, filii vestri in quo ejiciunt ? ideo ipsi judices vestri erunt.
Vulgate
And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
ASV
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Βεελζεβούλ
beelzeboul
noun · 7×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δαιμόνιον
daimonion
noun · 63×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κριτής
krites
noun · 19×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκβάλλω
ekballo
verb · 80×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: κριταὶ ἔσονται ὑμῶν | WH/Treg/NIV: κριταὶ ἔσονται ὑμῶν | RP: ὑμῶν ἔσονται κριταί
- κριταὶ ἔσονται ὑμῶν — SBLGNT
- κριταὶ ἔσονται ὑμῶν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὑμῶν ἔσονται κριταί — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
2. This then being the first refutation, the next after it is that which relates to the disciples. For not always in one way only, but also in a second and third, He solves their objections, being minded most abundantly to silence their shamelessness. Which sort of thing He did also with respect to the Sabbath, bringing forward David, the priests, the testimony that says, I wil…
2. But what is, Judging the twelve tribes of Israel? This is, condemning them. For they are not surely to sit as judges, but like as He said the Queen of the South should condemn that generation, and the Ninevites shall condemn them; so now these also. Therefore He said not, the nations, and the world, but the tribes of Israel. For since both the Jews alike and the apostles had…
2. Then, in order that you may see in another way also the justice of the sentence, He first praises them that have done right, and says, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world. For I was an hungered, and you gave me meat, and all that follows. Matthew 25:34-40 For that they may not say, we had it not, He condemns…
1. They who come to the divine preaching and give heed to the faith, must manifest the desire of thirsty men for water, and kindle in themselves a similar longing; so will they be able also very carefully to retain what is said. For as thirsty men, when they have taken a bowl, eagerly drain it and then desist, so too they who hear the divine oracles if they receive them thirsti…
Chapter 5.—The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World. The Saviour Himself, while reproving the cities in which He had done great works, but which had not believed, and while setting them in unfavorable comparison with foreign cities, says, “But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day…
Cross-references
- Acts 19:13 — Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
- Acts 19:13 — Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
- Luke 9:49 — And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us.
- Luke 11:19 — And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
- Mark 9:38 — And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.
- Matt 12:41 — The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
- Num 23:23 — Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
- Rom 3:19 — Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.