He answered, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!”

A spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him alone, torturing him severely.

And those who were in front scolded him to get him to be quiet, but he shouted even more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

Demons also came out of many, crying out, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them, and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.