But John tried to stop Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and yet You come to me?”

“Go!” He told them. So when they had come out, they entered the pigs. And suddenly the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and perished in the water.

He was preaching: “Someone more powerful than I will come after me. I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of His sandals.

And He gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.

John said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he wasn’t following us.”

“Don’t stop him,” said Jesus, “because there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name who can soon afterward speak evil of Me.

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to Me. Don’t stop them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

Everyone was crying and mourning for her. But He said, “Stop crying, for she is not dead but asleep.”

John responded, “Master, we saw someone driving out demons in Your name, and we tried to stop him because he does not follow us.”

“Don’t stop him,” Jesus told him, “because whoever is not against you is for you.”

Jesus, however, invited them: “Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

He told those who were selling doves, “Get these things out of here! Stop turning My Father’s house into a marketplace!”

Jesus answered them, “Stop complaining among yourselves.

Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”

for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

They also presented false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him.

and said, “You son of the Devil, full of all deceit and all fraud, enemy of all righteousness! Won’t you ever stop perverting the straight paths of the Lord?

Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears.

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

Each of the four living creatures had six wings; they were covered with eyes around and inside. Day and night they never stop, saying:

Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God, the Almighty,
who was, who is, and who is coming.

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has been victorious so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.”

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.