Acts 19:15

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But the evil spirit answered them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?"

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  • Mark 1:24 : 24 'What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!'
  • Mark 1:34 : 34 He healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not let the demons speak, because they knew who he was.
  • Mark 5:9-9 : 9 Then Jesus asked him, 'What is your name?' He replied, 'My name is Legion, for we are many.' 10 And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region. 11 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. 12 The demons begged Him, 'Send us into the pigs so that we may enter them.' 13 So He gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, and the herd—about two thousand in number—rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.
  • Luke 4:33-35 : 33 In the synagogue, there was a man with a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, 34 The demon shouted, 'What do we have to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!' 35 But Jesus rebuked it, saying, 'Be silent and come out of him.' Then the demon threw the man to the ground in their midst, but it came out of him without harming him.
  • Luke 8:28-32 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, "What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!" 29 For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into deserted places. 30 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he replied, because many demons had entered him. 31 And they begged Jesus repeatedly not to order them to go into the abyss. 32 A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
  • Acts 16:17-18 : 17 She followed Paul and us, shouting, 'These men are servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!' 18 She kept doing this for many days. Finally, Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, 'I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.' And it came out that very moment.
  • Gen 3:1-5 : 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, 'Did God really say, you shall not eat from any tree in the garden?' 2 The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat the fruit of the trees in the garden.' 3 'But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'' 4 But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will surely not die.' 5 'For God knows that on the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.'
  • 1 Kgs 22:21-23 : 21 Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the LORD, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 ‘By what means?’ the LORD asked. 'I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said. The LORD replied, 'You will succeed in enticing him. Go and do it.' 23 So now the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours, and the LORD has decreed disaster for you.
  • Matt 8:29-31 : 29 Suddenly they shouted, 'What do You want with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the appointed time?' 30 A large herd of pigs was feeding at some distance from them. 31 The demons begged Him, 'If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.'

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    12so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched him were brought to the sick, and their diseases left them, and evil spirits went out of them.

    13Some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those possessed by evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches."

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  • Acts 19:16-17
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    16Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them all, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded.

    17This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus. Fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

  • Mark 1:23-27
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    23Just then, in their synagogue, there was a man possessed by an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

    24'What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!'

    25Jesus rebuked him, saying, 'Be silent, and come out of him!'

    26The unclean spirit convulsed the man, and with a loud cry, it came out of him.

    27The people were all amazed, so they began to question each other: 'What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.'

  • Luke 4:33-36
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    33In the synagogue, there was a man with a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice,

    34The demon shouted, 'What do we have to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!'

    35But Jesus rebuked it, saying, 'Be silent and come out of him.' Then the demon threw the man to the ground in their midst, but it came out of him without harming him.

    36Everyone was amazed, and they said to one another, 'What is this message? With authority and power He commands unclean spirits, and they come out!'

  • Mark 5:7-9
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    7Crying out with a loud voice, he said, 'What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You by God, do not torment me!'

    8For Jesus had been saying to him, 'Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!'

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    27When Jesus stepped ashore, He was met by a man from the city who was possessed by demons. For a long time, this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but instead lived among the tombs.

    28When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, "What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!"

    29For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

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    28When He arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men came out from the tombs to meet Him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.

    29Suddenly they shouted, 'What do You want with us, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the appointed time?'

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    16As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a servant girl who had a spirit of divination. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.

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    11When the impure spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out, "You are the Son of God!"

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    39A spirit seizes him, and suddenly he cries out. It throws him into convulsions, causing him to foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him and severely bruises him.

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    3This man lived in the tombs, and no one was able to restrain him anymore, not even with chains.

  • Mark 5:15
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    55But Jesus turned and rebuked them.

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    19But I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You in the synagogues.

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    19Instead, they had some matters of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul claimed to be alive.

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    22And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He is possessed by Beelzebul! By the prince of demons, He casts out demons."

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    15But some of them said, 'He drives out demons by Beelzebul, the ruler of demons.'

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    15He then said to them, "But who do you say I am?"

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    16And he asked the scribes, 'What are you discussing with them?'