Mark 1:21-28  New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

The Man with an Unclean Spirit

²¹ They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught.^{(A) 22} They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.^{(B) 23} Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, ²⁴ and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”^{(C) 25} But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet and come out of him!”^{(D) 26} And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. ²⁷ They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, “What is this? A new teaching—with authority! He^[a] commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”^{(E) 28} At once his fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.