and when he had driven out the demon, the dumb spoke. The crowds were amazed, saying, "Never was such a thing seen in Israel!"

"For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, 'He has a demon';

At evening when the sun had set, people came and brought to him all the sick and demon-possessed,

As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging to go with him; but he said,

(the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race), and again and again she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

"For that saying of yours, go home," he replied; "the demon has departed from your daughter."

So she went home, and found the child lying in her bed and the demon departed.

And there was in the synagogue a man possessed by the spirit of a foul demon. He cried out, in a loud voice, saying.

And Jesus rebuked him, saying. "Be quiet! Come out of him." And when the demon had thrown the man down before them, he came out of him without doing him any harm.

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

For Jesus was already commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had seized him and held him, and they again and again kept him under guard, and put him in chains and fetters. But he would break his bonds asunder, as he was driven by the demon in to the desert.

Then those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been saved.

But while he was yet coming the demon dashed him down, and cruelly convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Once he was casting out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people wondered.

The crowd answered. "You have a demon! Who is trying kill you?"

In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"

"I do not have a demon," said Jesus, "but I am honoring my Father, and you are dishonoring me.

"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?"

This plan commended itself to the whole body, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.

while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.