This hostile challenge to Jesus from the Pharisees leads on to the next rather difficult passage (8:14-21). Jesus refused to abuse his divine powers in the way the Pharisees demanded. If they could not see any proof of his divine mission in the exorcisms and healing he performed, they were spiritually blind; no further wonderful sign would convince them if they believed that his power came from Beelzebul (3 :22). Many people in our modern world also want the wrong kind of proof about Jesus Christ and his power.