'Unclean' in the Bible

All of a sudden, there was a man in their synagogue who had an unclean spirit! He screamed,

At this, the unclean spirit shook the man, cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

"because they had been saying, "He has an unclean spirit."

Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.

Jesus had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

He called the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, giving them authority over unclean spirits.

They noticed that some of his disciples were eating with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands."

Nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean. It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

Then he continued, "It's what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean,

All these things come from inside and make a person unclean."

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"