'Demon' in the Bible

After the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.

Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

And He said to her, “Because of this answer go; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”

And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon having left.

In the synagogue there was a man possessed by the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst of the people, 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 He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.

While he was still approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground and threw him into a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.

And He was casting out a demon, and it was mute; when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed.

The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill You?”

The Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”

Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”

Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”