23 Just then a man with an unclean(A) spirit(B) was in their synagogue.(C) He cried out, 24 “What do you have to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?(D) Have you come to destroy(E) us? I know who you are—the Holy(F) One of God!” (G)

25 Jesus rebuked(H) him saying, “Be silent,(I) and come out of him!” 26 And the unclean spirit threw him into convulsions,(J) shouted with a loud voice, and came out of him.

27 They were all amazed,(K) and so they began to ask(L) each other, “What is this? A new teaching(M) with authority![a](N) He commands even the unclean(O) spirits,(P) and they obey him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:27 Other mss read “What is this? What is this new teaching? For with authority

29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was guarded, bound by chains and shackles, he would snap the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

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42 As the boy was still approaching, the demon knocked him down and threw him into severe convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy,(A) and gave him back to his father.(B)

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He called out in a mighty voice:

It has fallen,[a]
Babylon the Great has fallen!(A)
She has become a home for demons,
a haunt for every unclean spirit,
a haunt for every unclean bird,
and a haunt[b] for every unclean and despicable beast.[c](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:2 Other mss omit It has fallen
  2. 18:2 Or prison
  3. 18:2 Other mss omit the words and a haunt for every unclean beast. The words and despicable then refer to the bird of the previous line.

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