Lukas 11:15
Konteks11:15 But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, 1 the ruler 2 of demons, he casts out demons.”
Matius 12:31-34
Konteks12:31 For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, 3 but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven. 4 But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, 5 either in this age or in the age to come.
12:33 “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad 6 and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit. 12:34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
Yakobus 3:5-8
Konteks3:5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, 7 yet it has great pretensions. 8 Think 9 how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze. 3:6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents 10 the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It 11 pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence – and is set on fire by hell. 12
3:7 For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature 13 is subdued and has been subdued by humankind. 14 3:8 But no human being can subdue the tongue; it is a restless 15 evil, full of deadly poison.
[11:15] 1 tn Grk “By Beelzebul.”
[11:15] sn Beelzebul is another name for Satan. So some people recognized Jesus’ work as supernatural, but called it diabolical.
[12:31] 3 tn Grk “every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men.”
[12:32] 4 tn Grk “it will be forgiven him.”
[12:32] 5 tn Grk “it will not be forgiven him.”
[12:32] sn Whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. This passage has troubled many people, who have wondered whether or not they have committed this sin. Three things must be kept in mind: (1) the nature of the sin is to ascribe what is the obvious work of the Holy Spirit (e.g., releasing people from Satan’s power) to Satan himself; (2) it is not simply a momentary doubt or sinful attitude, but is indeed a settled condition which opposes the Spirit’s work, as typified by the religious leaders who opposed Jesus; and (3) a person who is concerned about it has probably never committed this sin, for those who commit it here (i.e., the religious leaders) are not in the least concerned about Jesus’ warning.
[12:33] 6 tn Grk “rotten.” The word σαπρός, modifying both “tree” and “fruit,” can also mean “diseased” (L&N 65.28).
[3:5] 7 tn Grk “a small member.”
[3:5] 8 tn Grk “boasts of great things.”
[3:6] 10 tn Grk “makes itself,” “is made.”
[3:6] 11 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
[3:6] 12 sn The word translated hell is “Gehenna” (γέεννα, geenna), a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew words ge hinnom (“Valley of Hinnom”). This was the valley along the south side of Jerusalem. In OT times it was used for human sacrifices to the pagan god Molech (cf. Jer 7:31; 19:5-6; 32:35), and it came to be used as a place where human excrement and rubbish were disposed of and burned. In the intertestamental period, it came to be used symbolically as the place of divine punishment (cf. 1 En. 27:2, 90:26; 4 Ezra 7:36).
[3:7] 13 tn Grk (plurals), “every kind of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures.”
[3:7] 14 tn Grk “the human species.”
[3:8] 15 tc Most