When the demon was expelled, the dumb man could speak. And the crowds exclaimed in astonishment, "Never was such a thing seen in Israel."

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

Here a Canaanitish woman of the district came out and persistently cried out, "Sir, Son of David, pity me; my daughter is cruelly harassed by a demon."

Then Jesus reprimanded the demon, and it came out and left him; and the boy was cured from that moment.

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked Him, "Why could not we expel the demon?"

She was a Gentile woman, a Syro-phoenician by nation: and again and again she begged Him to expel the demon from her daughter.

"For those words of yours, go home," He replied; "the demon has gone out of your daughter."

So she went home, and found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

But in the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of a foul demon. In a loud voice he cried out,

But Jesus rebuked the demon. "Silence!" He exclaimed; "come out of him." Upon this, the demon hurled the man into the midst of them, and 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 already He had been commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. For many a time it had seized and held him, and they had repeatedly put him in chains and fetters and kept guard over him, but he used to break the chains to pieces, and, impelled by the demon, to escape into the Desert.

On once occasion He was expelling a dumb demon; and when the demon was gone out the dumb man could speak, and the people were astonished.

"You are possessed by a demon," replied the crowd; "no one wants to kill you."

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

"I am not possessed by a demon," replied Jesus. "On the contrary I honour my Father, and you dishonour me.

"Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, 'If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

Many of them said, "He is possessed by a demon and is mad. Why do you listen to him?"

Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"

The suggestion met with general approval, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch.