Mark 1:21-23

Expanded Bible

Jesus Forces Out an Evil Spirit^(A)

²¹ Jesus and his ·followers [disciples] went to Capernaum [^Ca town on the northwest shore of Lake Galilee; it became Jesus’ home base]. On the Sabbath day he went to the synagogue and began to teach. ²² The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught ·like [as] a person who had authority, not ·like [as] ·their teachers of the law [the scribes; ^Cexperts in the law of Moses]. ²³ Just then, a man was there in the synagogue who had an ·evil [defiling; ^Lunclean] spirit in him. [^CDemons were viewed as “unclean” or defiling spirit-beings.] He shouted,