Reference: Possession
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POSSESSION
1. Meaning of the term.
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And His fame went forth into all Syria: and they brought Him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, and the demonized, and the lunatics, and the paralytics; and He healed them.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many mighty works?
And they going out, behold, they brought to Him a dumb man, demonized.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely you did receive, freely give.
Then a demonized man was brought to Him, blind and dumb: and He healed him, so that the blind and dumb man both spake and saw.
lf I through Beelzebul cast out demons, through whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
Then he goes, and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and having come in dwells there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So it will also be with this wicked generation.
And many multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, the blind, the deaf, the maimed, and many others, and laid them down at the feet of Jesus; and He healed them:
saying, Let me alone; what is there to us and thee, thou Jesus, the Nazarene? You have come to destroy us; I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be silent, and come out from him.
And it being evening, when the sun went down, they were carrying to Him all the sick and demonized;
and crying with a loud voice, he says, What is there to me and to thee, O Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee in the name of God, that you may not torment me.
And Jesus immediately permitted them. And the unclean spirits having gone out, came into the swine: and the herd rushed down a precipice into the sea, and there were about two thousand: and they were strangled in the sea.
And they bring Him a deaf man, speaking with difficulty; and intreat Him that He may lay His hand on him.
And when he may take him, he lacerates him: and he froths, and gnashes his teeth, and pines away. And I said to thy disciples, that they should cast him out; and they were not able.
And Jesus seeing that the multitude are running together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out from him, and enter no more into him.
And Jesus seeing that the multitude are running together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out from him, and enter no more into him.
And John responded to Him saying, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in Thy name, who does not follow us; and we forbade him, because he does not follow us.
He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You do err much.
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For he shall be great before the Lord; and he shall not drink wine and strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from the womb of his mother.
As he spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning;
And having come down with them, He stood upon a level place, and a great multitude of His disciples, and a great crowd of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and Tyre and Sidon by the sea, who came to hear Him, and to be healed of their diseases;
And at that hour He healed many of their diseases and ailments and evil spirits; and He conferred on many blind people the power to see.
And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
And He was casting out a demon, and he was dumb: and it came to pass, the demon having gone out, the dumb spoke; and the multitudes were astonished.
And others tempting, continued to seek with Him a sign from heaven.
But if I through Beelzebul cast out the demons, through whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges:
Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and having come in he dwells there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
And behold, a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and not at all able to straighten up.
And He said to them, Having gone, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perfect healings to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I am made perfect.
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to go into the kingdom of God.
And the multitude responded, Thou hast a demon: who seeks to kill thee?
I in them, and thou in me, in order that they may be perfected into one; in order that the world may know that thou didst send me, and didst love them, as thou didst love me.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all of one accord in the same place.
And having come opposite Mysia, they were endeavoring to go on into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them;
But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.
I am crucified along with Christ; and I live no longer, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption.
Be not drunk with wine, in which there is riot, but be ye filled with the Spirit;
but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man;
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Possession.
[DEMONIACS]
See Demoniacs