and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons:
The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,
Shim`on, to whom he gave the name Kefa;