Just as they were going out, some people brought up to Jesus a dumb man who was possessed by a demon;

And, as soon as the demon had been driven out, the dumb man spoke. The people were astonished at this, and exclaimed: "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"

For, when John came, neither eating nor drinking, men said 'He has a demon in him';

There, a Canaanite woman of that district came out and began calling to Jesus: "Take pity on me, Master, Son of David; my daughter is grievously possessed by a demon."

Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy; and he was cured from that very hour.

The woman was a foreigner, a native of Syrian Phoenicia--and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

"For saying that," he answered, "you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter."

The woman went home, and found the child lying on her bed, and the demon gone.

In the Synagogue there was a man with the spirit of a foul demon in him, who called out loudly:

But Jesus rebuked the demon. "Be silent! Come out from him," he said. The demon flung the man down in the middle of the people, and then came out from him, without causing him further harm.

For now that John the Baptist has come, not eating bread or drinking wine, you are saying 'He has a demon in him';

For Jesus was commanding the foul spirit to come out from the man. On many occasions it had seized him, and, even when secured with chains and fetters, and watched, he would break through anything that bound him, and be driven by the demon into the Wilds.

While the boy was coming up to Jesus, the demon dashed him down and threw him into convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the foul spirit, and cured the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;

"You must be possessed by a demon!" the people exclaimed. "Who is seeking to put you to death?"

"Are not we right, after all," replied the Jews, "in saying that you are a Samaritan, and are possessed by a demon?"

"I am not possessed by a demon," Jesus answered, "but I am showing reverence for my Father; and yet you have no reverence for me.

"Now we are sure that you are possessed by a demon," the Jews replied. "Abraham died, and so did the Prophets; and yet you say 'If any one lays my Message to heart, he will never know death.'

Many of them said: "He is possessed by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?"

Others said: "This is not the teaching of one who is possessed by a demon. Can a demon give sight to the blind?"

This proposal was unanimously agreed to; and the disciples chose Stephen--a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit--and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a former convert to Judaism;