But he denied it in front of them all: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law and elders – were mocking him:

Then Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit.

Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

The guards were shaken and became like dead men because they were so afraid of him.

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,

The whole town gathered by the door.

When they found him, they said, “Everyone is looking for you.”

For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

and to have authority to cast out demons.

He taught them many things in parables, and in his teaching said to them:

So with many parables like these, he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear.

And he said to them, “Why are you cowardly? Do you still not have faith?”

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

He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.

There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding.

Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.