‘What are you bothering us for, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you’re God’s Holy One!’

‘Be quiet, and come out of him,’ he ordered. And with those words, the man crashed to the floor, shaking. He shouted loudly, but then went calm. It was as if some kind of spirit had left him.

Everyone was taken by surprise by this. They’d never seen anything like it before. One person said, ‘He gives orders, and even spirits obey him! They do just what he says!’