17 Bible Verses About Casting Out Demons

  • Jesus cast out demons by a spoken command and said that doing so “by the finger of God” showed the kingdom of God had come (Luke 11:20).
  • He gave authority over unclean spirits to the twelve (Matthew 10:1) and the seventy-two (Luke 10:17-19), then told the seventy-two to rejoice that their names are written in heaven rather than that spirits obeyed them.
  • When the disciples failed with the boy in Mark 9, Mark gives prayer as the answer and Matthew gives little faith as the cause; the King James Version adds “and fasting” to both.
  • Mark 16:17 belongs to a passage the ESV brackets because some of the earliest manuscripts lack it, and churches differ on whether its signs continue today.
  • The letters tell believers to resist the devil (James 4:7) and stand in the armor of God (Ephesians 6:11-12), resting on Christ’s disarming of the powers at the cross (Colossians 2:15).

Jesus cast out demons with a spoken command, and he said the expulsions showed that the kingdom of God had arrived. He says so in Luke 11:20, and he gives the same authority to his disciples in Matthew 10:1 and Luke 10:17-19. The Gospel accounts include the man in the Capernaum synagogue (Mark 1:25-26), the man called Legion (Mark 5:7-8) and the boy the disciples could not free (Mark 9:29). Acts shows the authority used in Jesus’ name by Paul…

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