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

And just as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens rent apart, and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him,

Immediately afterwards the Spirit drove Jesus out into the Wilderness;

Now there was in their Synagogue at the time a man under the power of a foul spirit, who called out:

But Jesus rebuked the spirit: "Be silent! Come out from him."

The foul spirit threw the man into a fit, and with a loud cry came out from him.

And the fame of Jesus spread at once in all directions, through the whole neighborhood of Galilee.

The man, however, went away, and began to speak about it publicly, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town, but stayed outside in lonely places; and people came to him from every direction.

Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;

but whoever slanders the Holy Spirit remains unforgiven to the end; he has to answer for an enduring sin."

This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.

And, as soon as Jesus had got out of the boat, he met a man coming out of the tombs, who was under the power of a foul spirit,

For Jesus had said: "Come out from the man, you foul spirit."

For a woman, whose little daughter had a foul spirit in her, heard of him immediately, and came and threw herself at his feet--

"Teacher," answered a man in the crowd, "I brought my son to see you, as he has a dumb spirit in him;

And, wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they failed."

They brought him to Jesus; but no sooner did the boy see him than the spirit threw him into convulsions; and he fell on the ground, and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.

But, when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly collecting, he rebuked the foul spirit: "Deaf and dumb spirit, it is I who command you. Come out from him and never enter him again."

With a loud cry the spirit threw the boy into repeated convulsions, and then came out from him. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.

"A spirit of this kind," he said, "can be driven out only by prayer."

Many of the people spread their cloaks on the road, while some strewed boughs which they had cut from the fields;

David said himself, speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit-- 'The Lord said to my lord: "Sit at my right hand, Until I put thy enemies beneath thy feet.'"

Whenever they betray you and hand you over for trial, do not be anxious beforehand as to what you shall say, but say whatever is given you at the moment; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

Watch and pray," he said to them all, "that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."