(because they said, “He has an unclean spirit”).

I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

The Spirit immediately drove him into the wilderness.

Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

(For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)

Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was quickly gathering, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

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

Stay awake and pray that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them, “Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin”

Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two. He gave them authority over the unclean spirits.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

Sighing deeply in his spirit he said, “Why does this generation look for a sign? I tell you the truth, no sign will be given to this generation.”

A member of the crowd said to him, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that makes him mute.

So they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

They were all amazed so that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him.”

Jesus gave them permission. So the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and about two thousand were drowned in the lake.