¹¹ Who knows a person’s depths except their own spirit that lives in them? In the same way, no one has known the depths of God except God’s Spirit. ¹² We haven’t received the world’s spirit but God’s Spirit so that we can know the things given to us by God. ¹³ These are the things we are talking about—not with words taught by human wisdom but with words taught by the Spirit—we are interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. ¹⁴ But people who are unspiritual don’t accept the things from God’s Spirit. They are foolishness to them and can’t be understood, because they can only be comprehended in a spiritual way. ¹⁵ Spiritual people comprehend everything, but they themselves aren’t understood by anyone. ¹⁶ Who has known the mind of the Lord, who will advise him?^[a] But we have the mind of Christ.

Jesus in Capernaum

³¹ Jesus went down to the city of Capernaum in Galilee and taught the people each Sabbath. ³² They were amazed by his teaching because he delivered his message with authority.

³³ A man in the synagogue had the spirit of an unclean demon. He screamed, ³⁴ “Hey! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the holy one from God.”

³⁵ “Silence!” Jesus said, speaking harshly to the demon. “Come out of him!” The demon threw the man down before them, then came out of him without harming him.

³⁶ They were all shaken and said to each other, “What kind of word is this, that he can command unclean spirits with authority and power, and they leave?” ³⁷ Reports about him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.