³¹ So I tell you, people can be forgiven for every sin and ·everything they say against God [blasphemy]. But whoever ·speaks [blasphemes] against the ·Holy Spirit [^LSpirit] will not be forgiven. ³² Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, ·now or in the future [^Lneither in this age, nor the one to come].

²⁸ I tell you the truth, all sins that people do and all ·the things people say against God [blasphemies] can be forgiven. ²⁹ But anyone who ·speaks against [blasphemes] the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of ·a sin that continues forever [a sin with eternal consequences; ^Lan eternal sin].”

³⁰ Jesus said this because the teachers of the law said that he had an ·evil [defiling; ^Lunclean] spirit inside him.

Two Kinds of Fruit^(A)

⁴³ “[^LFor] A good tree does not produce ·bad [rotten] fruit, nor does a ·bad [rotten] tree produce good fruit. ⁴⁴ [^LFor] Each tree is ·known [identified] by its own fruit. [^LFor] People don’t ·gather [pick] figs from thornbushes, and they don’t get grapes from ·bushes [brambles; briers]. ⁴⁵ Good people bring good things out of the good ·they stored [treasured] in their hearts. But evil people bring evil things out of the evil ·they stored [treasured] in their hearts. ·People speak the things that are in their hearts [^LFor the mouth speaks what overflows from the heart].

¹⁰ “Anyone who speaks [^La word] against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who ·speaks [^Lblasphemes] against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven [Matt. 12:31–32; Mark 3:28–30].