Luke 8:29 Cross References - Moffatt

²⁹ (For he had charged the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many a time when it had seized hold of him, he had been fastened secure in fetters and chains, but he would snap his bonds and be driven by the daemon into the desert.)

³ who dwelt among the tombs; by this time no one could bind him, not even with a chain, ⁴ for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters — nobody could tame him. ⁵ All night and day among the tombs and the hills he shrieked and gashed himself with stones.

⁸ (For he had said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.")

²⁰ So they brought the boy to him, and when the spirit saw Jesus it at once convulsed the boy; he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. ²¹ Jesus asked his father, "How long has he been like this?" "From childhood," he said; ²² "it has thrown him into fire and water many a time, to destroy him. If you can do anything, do help us, do have pity on us." ²³ Jesus said to him, "'If you can'! Anything can be done for one who believes." ²⁴ At once the father of the boy cried out, "I do believe; help my unbelief." ²⁵ Now as Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly gathering, he checked the unclean spirit. "Deaf and dumb spirit," he said, "leave him, I command you, and never enter him again." ²⁶ And it did come out, after shrieking aloud and convulsing him violently. The child turned like a corpse, so that most people said, "he is dead";

³⁹ and a spirit gets hold of him till he suddenly shrieks; it convulses him till he foams; indeed it will hardly leave off tearing him to pieces.

⁴² Before the boy could reach Jesus, the daemon dashed him down and convulsed him, but Jesus checked the unclean spirit, cured the boy, and handed him back to his father.

¹² people even carried away towels or aprons he had used, and at their touch sick folk were freed from their diseases and evil spirits came out of them. ¹³ Some strolling Jewish exorcists also undertook to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches!" ¹⁴ The seven sons of Sceuas, a Jewish high priest, used to do this. ¹⁵ But the evil spirit retorted, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but you — who are you?" ¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit resided leapt at them, overpowered them all, and belaboured them, till they rushed out of the house stripped and wounded.

²⁵ he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth; ²⁶ they may come to their senses again and escape the snare of the devil, as they are brought back to life by God to do his will.