Quotes About Power

“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!”

But Jesus rebuked the spirit. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!”

At this, the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions and came out with a loud shriek.

“Which is easier: to say to a paralytic, ëYour sins are forgiven,í or to say, ëGet up, pick up your mat, and walkí?

For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.

And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”

and to have authority to drive out demons.

Indeed, no one can enter a strong manís house to steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.

Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

Overwhelmed with fear, they asked one another, “Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?”

Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.

“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.

At once Jesus was aware that power had gone out from Him. Turning to the crowd, He asked, “Who touched My garments?”

So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them.

Now King Herod heard about this, for Jesusí name had become well known, and people were saying, “John the Baptist has risen from the dead! That is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philipís wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,

On Herodís birthday, her opportunity arose. Herod held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.

When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

And he swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom!”

Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”

At once the girl hurried back to the king with her request: “I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

The man brought Johnís head on a platter and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother.