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Beelzebul
prince of demons
Demonic title meaning 'prince of demons,' used by Jesus's opponents to accuse him of casting out demons by satanic power.
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Beelzebul (also spelled Beelzebub) appears in the Synoptic Gospels as the name used by 's opponents to accuse him of demonic collusion. When Jesus cast out a mute demon, the crowd marveled, but the scribes and charged that he cast out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons. Jesus responded with the parable of the divided kingdom and the strong man bound, arguing that his exorcisms demonstrated that the kingdom of God had arrived and that the strong man — — was being plundered ( 12, 3, 11). The name may derive from a Semitic phrase meaning "lord of the house" or be a play on the deity Baal-zebub of .
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