'Authority' in the Bible
on the authority of those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and were devoted to the service of the divine Message,
The Devil said to Him, “I will give You their splendor and all this authority, because it has been given over to me, and I can give it to anyone I want.
They were astonished at His teaching because His message had authority.
And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.
But so you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He told the paralyzed man, “I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
An argument started among them as to which of them might be the greatest [surpassing the others in esteem and authority].
Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing will ever harm you.
But I will show you the One to fear: Fear Him who has authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the One to fear!
I tell you truly that He will put him in authority over all His possessions.
Therefore He said: “A nobleman traveled to a far country to receive for himself authority to be king and then return.
“At his return, having received the authority to be king, he summoned those slaves he had given the money to, so he could find out how much they had made in business.
And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
Was John's authority to baptize from heaven or from humans?"
And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.
And when he learned that He belonged to the jurisdiction of Herod [Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee], he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.
Now there was a man named Joseph, a man of authority and a good and upright man
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