The first reading (Gn 3:9-15) of today's liturgy of the Word is also called the "protoevangelium," the first proclamation of the gospel in the bible, whereas the well known gospel's passage offers us an example of the "sandwiches system" used quite frequently and masterfully by St. Mark. This rhetorical skill places an event into another, without finishing the previous one, which will be eventual taken up again to connect the end with the beginning. St. Mark uses this narrative style to provide time to the other event which takes place and also to explain an event with another event, intrinsically connected. The combination of the "protoevangelium from Genesis 3 and the Beelzebul controversy from Mark 3 shows how Jesus handles the power of evil by bringing to our attention the misunderstanding of good and evil and the clear division between the two, whereas we deal with the power of evil by blaming the devil or somebody else, not our pride and foolishness.