11 occurrences

'Unclean Spirit' in the Bible

All of a sudden, there was a man in their synagogue who had an unclean spirit! He screamed,

At this, the unclean spirit shook the man, cried out with a loud voice, and came out of him.

All the people were so stunned that they kept saying to each other, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He tells even the unclean spirits what to do, and they obey him!"

Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

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

Jesus had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

In fact, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell down at his feet.

When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "You spirit that won't let him talk or hear I command you to come out of him and never enter him again!"

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