Jesus’ disciples are not able to expel a demon from a boy. The crowd is in awe as Jesus shows how powerful faith can be.
Demon An invisible, wicked, spirit creature having superhuman powers. The common Greek word for demon (daiʹmon) occurs only once in the Christian Greek Scriptures, in Matthew 8:31; elsewhere the word dai moʹni on appears. Pneuʹma, the Greek word for “spirit,” at times is applied to wicked spirits, or demons.
Paul ordered “a demon of divination” out of a slave girl, much to the anger of her money-loving owners. (Ac 16:16-19) But when certain impostors, the seven sons of priest Sceva, attempted to cast out a demon in the name of “Jesus whom Paul preaches,” the demon-possessed man seized and severely mauled the seven of them and stripped them ...