But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I know that power has gone out from me.”

Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and news about him spread throughout the surrounding countryside.

After Jesus called the twelve together, he gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,

Then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory.

The whole crowd was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.

But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

And look, I am sending you what my Father promised. But stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”

People will be fainting from fear and from the expectation of what is coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

But some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons, he casts out demons.”

They were all amazed and began to say to one another, “What’s happening here? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!”

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.

He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.

Then they were all astonished at the mighty power of God.But while the entire crowd was amazed at everything Jesus was doing, he said to his disciples,

John answered them all, “I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming – I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

And he will go as forerunner before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.”

Now on one of those days, while he was teaching, there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting nearby (who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem), and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

He said to them, “What things?” “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene,” they replied, “a man who, with his powerful deeds and words, proved to be a prophet before God and all the people;

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

But I will warn you whom you should fear: Fear the one who, after the killing, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!