And everyone became amazed and began saying to one another, “What is he saying? For with authority and power he orders the evil spirits to come out [of people], and they do.”
Then He said to the disciples, “Where is your faith?” They became afraid and were amazed, saying to one another, “Who can this [man] be, that he can even command the winds and the water and they obey him?”
And while the boy was approaching [Jesus], an evil spirit threw him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus spoke sternly to the evil spirit and [then] returned him to his father healed.
For we did not use cleverly conceived stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, because we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty [i.e., the apostles had personally seen the miraculous power of Jesus].