'Demon' in the Bible

After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, "Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!"

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

Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Then he said to her, "Because you said this, you may go. The demon has left your daughter."

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

Now in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,

But Jesus rebuked him: "Silence! Come out of him!" Then, after the demon threw the man down in their midst, he came out of him without hurting him.

For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!'

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

As the boy was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground and shook him with convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the man who had been mute began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.

The crowd answered, "You're possessed by a demon! Who is trying to kill you?"

The Judeans replied, "Aren't we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"

Jesus answered, "I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father -- and yet you dishonor me.

Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'

Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"