30 passages · Life and end
Jeshurun, another name for Israel, becomes prosperous and abandons God, turning to foreign gods and demons. The song accuses the people of forgetting the God who gave them birth.
Two violent, demon-possessed men meet Jesus among the tombs, and the demons beg to be sent into a herd of pigs. Jesus lets them, the herd rushes into the sea, and the townspeople beg Jesus to leave.
After Jesus heals a blind, mute demon-possessed man, the crowds wonder if he is the Son of David, but the Pharisees say he uses Beelzebul's power. Jesus answers that a divided kingdom cannot stand, and casting out demons shows God's kingdom has come.
A father says his son has seizures and the disciples could not heal him. Jesus rebukes the demon and the boy is healed, and he tells the disciples their little faith was the problem, since faith like a mustard seed can move mountains.
On the Sabbath in Capernaum, Jesus teaches with striking authority and commands an unclean spirit to leave a man. The people are amazed and word spreads across Galilee.
Jesus heals Simon's mother-in-law of a fever, and that evening the whole town gathers at the door as he heals many and drives out demons.
Jesus withdraws to the sea, where a huge crowd from many regions comes to be healed. Unclean spirits call him the Son of God, and he sternly orders them not to make him known.
His family thinks he is out of his mind, and scribes from Jerusalem say he casts out demons by Beelzebul. Jesus answers that a divided kingdom cannot stand and warns about blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
Across the lake, a man tormented by an unclean spirit, living in the tombs and too strong to chain, runs to Jesus. Jesus commands the spirit to leave and learns its name is Legion.
At the demons' request, Jesus lets them enter a herd of pigs, which rush into the sea. The healed man is calm and clothed, the townspeople ask Jesus to leave, and Jesus sends the man to tell his people what God has done.
In the region of Tyre, a Greek woman begs Jesus to free her daughter from an unclean spirit. After an exchange about children and dogs, he tells her the demon has left, and she finds her daughter healed.
The spirit convulses the boy, and his father pleads for help, saying 'I believe; help my unbelief.' Jesus commands the spirit to leave, lifts the boy up, and later tells the disciples that this kind comes out only by prayer.
Jesus teaches with authority in Capernaum, and a man with an unclean spirit cries out that He is the Holy One of God. Jesus commands the demon to leave, and the people are amazed.
Jesus meets a demon-possessed man among the tombs, and the demons, named Legion, beg to enter a herd of pigs. The herd drowns, the man is healed, the people ask Jesus to leave, and the man is sent home to tell what God has done.
The seventy-two return glad that demons submit in Jesus' name. He says He saw Satan fall and gave them authority, but tells them to rejoice more that their names are written in heaven.
After Jesus heals a mute man, some claim He uses Beelzebul's power and others ask for a sign. He replies that a divided kingdom falls, that He casts out demons by God's finger, and warns of an emptied house returning to trouble.
On a Sabbath in a synagogue, Jesus calls over a woman crippled for eighteen years and frees her. She straightens up and praises God.
As Passover nears, the chief priests seek a way to kill Jesus without turning the people against them. Satan enters Judas, who agrees with them to betray Jesus for money.
Paul commands a spirit out of a fortune-telling slave girl, and her angry owners drag Paul and Silas before the magistrates. They are beaten, jailed and put in stocks.
Jewish exorcists try to use Jesus's name over the possessed and are overpowered by the man with the evil spirit. Fear spreads, people confess their practices, and many burn expensive magic books as the word spreads.
Paul urges believers to be strong in the Lord and put on God's full armor to stand against evil. He lists truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation and the word of God.
The Spirit says some will abandon the faith in later times, following deceitful teachers who forbid marriage and certain foods. Paul answers that everything God made is good and received with thanksgiving.
John lists what believers know: the one born of God does not keep sinning, they are of God though the world lies under the evil one, and the Son of God has given understanding. He ends by telling them to keep away from idols.
A star falls and opens the shaft of the abyss, releasing smoke and locusts with scorpion stings who torment those without God's seal for five months. Their king is Abaddon, or Apollyon.
John sees a great sign: a woman clothed with the sun, in labor, and a great red dragon with seven heads waiting to devour her child. The child is caught up to God and the woman flees to the wilderness.
Michael and his angels fight the dragon, who is thrown down to earth. A loud voice declares that the accuser has been conquered by the blood of the Lamb and the word of the martyrs' testimony.
Thrown to earth, the dragon pursues the woman, who is given eagle's wings to escape to the wilderness for a time, times, and half a time. The earth swallows the flood the dragon sends, and he goes to make war on her other offspring.
The Euphrates dries up, and three unclean spirits like frogs gather the kings of the earth for battle at Armageddon. A parenthetical warning says Christ comes like a thief and blesses the one who stays awake.
An angel binds the dragon, Satan, for a thousand years in the abyss so that he can deceive the nations no more.
After the thousand years Satan is released, gathers Gog and Magog from the four corners, and surrounds the camp of the saints. Fire from heaven consumes them, and the devil is thrown into the lake of fire.