But at the very time they were going out, some people brought to Him a dumb man, who was under the power of a demon,

and after the demon had been driven out, the dumb man could talk. So the crowds were dumbfounded, saying, "Never before among the Jews was anything like this?

For John came neither eating nor drinking with others, and yet they said, 'He has a demon.'

And a Canaanite woman of that district came out and pleaded, saying, "Do pity me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is suffering horrors from a demon."

And Jesus reproved the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured that very moment.

She was a heathen who spoke Greek and had been born in Syro-Phenicia. And she kept begging Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Then He said to her, "Because you have said this, go home; the demon has gone out of your daughter."

She went home and found her daughter lying in bed, and the demon gone out.

Now there was a man in the synagogue who was under the power of the spirit of a foul demon, and he screamed with a loud voice,

But Jesus reproved him, saying "Be quiet! Get out of him at once!" So the demon threw the man down in the midst of them and came out of him without doing him any harm.

"For John the Baptist came eating no bread and drinking no wine, and yet you say, 'He has a demon!'

For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places.

Even while the boy was coming to Him, the demon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus reproved the foul spirit and cured the boy and gave back to his father.

Now He was driving a dumb demon out of a man, and when the demon went out of him, the dumb man spoke. The crowds were astonished.

The crowd answered, "You are certainly under the power of a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

Then the Jews answered Him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are under the power of a demon?"

Jesus answered: "I am not under the power of a demon; on the other hand, I am honoring my Father, but you are dishonoring me.

Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that you are under the power of a demon. Abraham is dead; the prophets too, and yet you say, 'If anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Many of them said, "He is under the power of a demon and is going crazy. Why are you listening to Him?"

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is under the power of a demon. A demon cannot make the eyes of the blind see, can he?"

This suggestion was approved by the whole body, and so they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Procorus, Nikanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, who was a convert to Judaism.