Matthew 11:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.

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  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
  • Matt 3:4 : 4 Now John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.
  • John 7:20 : 20 The people said in answer, You have an evil spirit: who has any desire to put you to death?
  • John 8:48 : 48 The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?
  • John 10:20 : 20 And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.
  • 1 Cor 9:27 : 27 But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.
  • 2 Kgs 9:11 : 11 Then Jehu came out again to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? why did this man, who is off his head, come to you? And he said to them, You have knowledge of the man and of his talk.
  • Jer 15:17 : 17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
  • Jer 16:8-9 : 8 And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink. 9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.
  • Jer 29:26 : 26 The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.
  • Hos 9:7 : 7 The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!

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    32 They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.

    33 For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.

    34 The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners.

  • Matt 11:19
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    19 The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

  • Luke 5:33-34
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    33 And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.

    34 And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?

  • Matt 11:17
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    17 We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.

  • Matt 9:14-15
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    14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

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  • Mark 2:16-19
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    16 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was taking food with the tax-farmers and sinners, said to his disciples, Why does he take food and drink with such men?

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    18 And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

    19 And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

  • John 10:20-21
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    20 And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?

    21 Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

  • Mark 3:20-22
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    20 And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.

    21 And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.

    22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem, said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the ruler of evil spirits he sends evil spirits out of men.

  • Luke 11:14-15
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    14 And he was sending an evil spirit out of a man who was without the power of talking. And it came about that when the spirit had gone the man had the power of talking; and the people were full of wonder.

    15 But some of them said, He sends out evil spirits by Beelzebul, the ruler of evil spirits.

  • Matt 3:3-4
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    3 For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

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    30 Because they said, He has an unclean spirit.

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    18 And the disciples of John gave him an account of all these things.

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    48 The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?

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    6 And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.

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    26 And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

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    30 And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?

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    32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

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    34 But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil spirits, he sends evil spirits out of men.

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    1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

  • Matt 12:24
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    24 But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.

  • Luke 11:18-20
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    18 If, then, Satan is at war with himself, how will he keep his kingdom? because you say that I send evil spirits out of men by the help of Beelzebul.

    19 And if I, by Beelzebul, send out evil spirits, by whose help do your sons send them out? so let them be your judges.

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    21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

  • John 4:33
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    33 So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

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    2 And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.

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    38 John said to him, Master, we saw one driving out evil spirits in your name: and we said that he might not, because he is not one of us.

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    2 For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.

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    24 And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

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    2 Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples

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    49 And John, answering, said, Master, we saw a man driving out evil spirits in your name, and we did not let him do it, because he was not one of us.

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    42 For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:

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