I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

So the news about him spread quickly throughout all the region around Galilee.

But as the man went out he began to announce it publicly and spread the story widely, so that Jesus was no longer able to enter any town openly but stayed outside in remote places. Still they kept coming to him from everywhere.

Now after some days, when he returned to Capernaum, the news spread that he was at home.

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, "Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

(because they said, "He has an unclean spirit").

Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.

(For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!")

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

Sighing deeply in his spirit he said, "Why does this generation look for a sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to this generation."

A member of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again."

Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.

David himself, by the Holy Spirit, said, 'The Lord said to my lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

When they arrest you and hand you over for trial, do not worry about what to speak. But say whatever is given you at that time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

When he was in Galilee, they had followed him and given him support. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were there too.