Further clarifications
If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household! Seventh clarification.
They called the teacher, the master of the house, the Lord of the universe Beelzebub and accused Him of being the devil, and that is what they will do to those who want to be part of Jesus’ family and to follow the Gospel. Slander, contempt, defamation, blasphemy, dishonor, malice are Satan's favorite tactics to turn God’s friends into humanity’s enemies. Beelzebub uses the scorn provoked by his own name to denigrate God's children. That is how wicked and adroit Satan incites people to harass, condemn, block, silence, and detain those God sent into the world to save, to cure, to awaken consciences, and to undo the chains of ignorance and fear. Because of this deception, human beings take down their own lightning rods and turn away from their healers and their liberators.
Therefore do not be afraid of them. Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, nor secret that will not be known. Eighth clarification.
Here is another clarification concerning the need to remain calm, peaceful, and unconcerned, never abandoning faith in God, which is what causes fear and anger, anxiety and frenzy. Jesus insists that we must never, for no reason, let ourselves become afraid. Not even during sad, terrible times. He is the Lord of all and everything and in His time and in His own way His light and peace will be visible to our eyes and our hearts.
Even all the hairs of your head are counted. Ninth clarification.
When persons, especially males, are afraid, worried, disappointed, or anxious about a problem that apparently has no escape route or solution, they externalize their dark, hopeless internal dialogue with a gesture of the hand in which the open palm is laid on the forehead and then pulled over their head through their hair to their neck. The gesture is never made on the knee or the stomach, but only over the hair on the head, the place of inner dialogue. This gesture expresses a complete lack of confidence in the One who can do all and sees, knows all. Jesus' use of this image of God counting the hairs of our head in order to underline God's absolute, non-deformable love and intimate confidence in His childrenmay be just a symbolic coincidence. Yet how wonderful it is to know that we are in His hands, and despite knowing everything about us, He loves us without measure or limits, only for love, free and wonderful love. It is wonderful to try, whatever happens in life, to gently to pass our hands through our hair until the heart and mind create an internal dialogue of total trust, gratitude and forgiveness.
Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father. But whoever denies me before others, I will deny before my heavenly Father. Tenth clarification.
To not acknowledge Jesus before men and their models, conventions, habits and powers means to be ashamed of Him, of His spiritual model and the procedure proposed by Him in the Gospel. It means to be more worried and concerned about human expectations, than God's will, to be more worried and concerned about people’s judgment, than about the true welfare of one's soul, to be more worried and concerned about "what will people say," than what the Gospel says. Perseverance in lovingly following the Gospel is the way to save all of humanity. Denying Jesus is to ridicule His Word and His person for the sake of prejudice and ignorance. To deny Jesus is to not only reject Him, but to do so with perverse intellectual dishonesty, with arrogance, and to never choose, freely and personally with the heart and soul. To not recognize is to be not recognized. Denying is to be denied.
The perseverance of love is a conscious decision to pursue Jesus' spiritual and mental procedures, regardless of advantages or disadvantages or the social context.
We would have preferred less precise, detailed explanations and realistic clarifications, but the Gospel’s wonder is also witnessing to His astounding power and grace in the face of violent reactions of hatred and persecution that create the world of darkness. This is a shining face of the Gospel and of Jesus.