“When an evil spirit \{from the devil\} comes out of a person, that spirit travels through dry places looking for a place to rest. But that spirit finds no place to rest.
The people there were amazed at Jesus’ teaching. Jesus did not teach like their teachers of the law. Jesus taught like a person that had authority (power).
Jesus healed many people that had different kinds of sicknesses. Jesus also forced many demons to leave people. But Jesus would not allow the demons to speak, because the demons knew who he was. {\cf2\super [17]}
When Jesus got out of the boat, a man came to him from the caves where dead people are buried. This man had an evil spirit \{from the devil\} living inside of him.
A woman heard that Jesus was there. Her little daughter had an evil spirit \{from the devil\} inside her. So the woman came to Jesus and bowed down near his feet.
Jesus saw that all the people were running there to see what was happening. So Jesus spoke to the evil spirit. Jesus said, “You evil spirit that makes this boy deaf and stops him from talking—I command you to come out of this boy and never enter him again!”