Many will say to me at that Day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? did we not cast out daemons in your name? did we not perform many miracles in your name?'

Now when evening came they brought him many demoniacs, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all the invalids ??17 that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, He took away our sicknesses and he removed our diseases.

so the daemons begged him saying, "If you are going to cast us out, send us into that drove of swine."

and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"

And summoning his twelve disciples he gave them power over unclean spirits, power to cast them out and also to heal every disease and every ailment.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out daemons; give without paying, as you have got without paying;

Besides, if I cast out daemons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Thus they will be your judges.

But if I cast out daemons by the Spirit of God, then the Reign of God has reached you already.

but when the disciples saw him walking on the sea they were terrified; "It is a ghost," they said and shrieked for fear.

Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not cast it out?"

Now when evening came, when the sun set, they brought him all who were ill or possessed by daemons ??33 indeed the whole town was gathered at the door ??34 and he cured many who were ill with various diseases and cast out many daemons; but as the daemons knew him he would not let them say anything.

So he called them and said to them by way of parable, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

also they cast out a number of daemons and cured a number of sick people by anointing them with oil.

but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost and shrieked aloud ??50 for they all saw him and were terrified. Then he spoke to them at once; "Courage," he said, "it is I, have no fear."

(the woman was a pagan, of Syrophoenician birth) begging him to cast the daemon out of her daughter.

and whenever it seizes him it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth. He is wasting away with it; so I told your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

When he went indoors his disciples asked him in private, "Why could we not cast it out?"

Now when he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, lying at table, a woman came up with an alabaster flask of pure nard perfume, which had cost a great sum; the flask she broke and poured the perfume over his head.

(a) Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala out of whom he had cast seven daemons.

And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,

With them he came down the hill and stood on a level spot. There was a great company of his disciples with him, and a large multitude of people from all Judaea, from Jerusalem, and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear him and to get cured of their diseases.

I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."

If I cast out daemons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Thus they will be your judges.

But if it is by the finger of God that I cast daemons out, then the Reign of God has reached you already.

I will show you whom to fear ??fear Him who after he has killed has power to cast you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear Him.

"Go and tell that fox," he replied, "I cast out daemons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and on the third day I complete my task!

"When anyone invites you to a marriage-banquet," he said, "never lie down in the best place, in case a more distinguished guest than yourself has been invited;

But when they saw this, everyone began to mutter that he had gone to be the guest of a sinner.

Which is the greatest, guest or servant? Is it not the guest? But I am among you as a servant.

They were scared and terrified, imagining it was a ghost they saw;

Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

At the festival the Jews were in quest of him, saying, "Where is he?"

Then they cast lots for them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, who was assigned his position with the eleven apostles.

When a moderate southerly breeze sprang up, they thought they had secured their object, and after weighing anchor they sailed along the coast of Crete, close inshore.

Now what are we to infer from this? That Israel has failed to secure the object of its quest; the elect have secured it, and the rest have been rendered insensible to it ??8 as it is written, God has given them a spirit of torpor, eyes that see not, ears that hear not ??down to this very day.

It all happened to them by way of warning for others, and it was written down for the purpose of instructing us whose lot has been cast in the closing hours of the world.

If it is discovered that in our quest for justification in Christ we are 'sinners' as well as the Gentiles, does that make Christ an agent of sin? Never!