DEMON DISEASED� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES

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[1]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 3:20 - Jesus came home and, as usual, a crowd gathered ~ so many making demands on him that there wasn't even time to eat.
[2]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 1:1, 14 [NIV] - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God....The Word became flesh.
[3]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 12:22 - Next a poor demon-afflicted wretch, both blind and deaf, was set down before him.� Jesus healed him, gave him his sight and hearing.
[4]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 12:23; II SAMUEL 7:12, 16 - The people who saw it were impressed ~ "This has to be the Son of David!"..."When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom....Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever."
[5]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 3:21 [NIV] - When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
[6]������ THE BIBLE, MARK 3:22 - The religious scholars from Jerusalem came down spreading rumors that he was working black magic, using devil tricks to impress them with spiritual power.
[7]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 12:25 - Jesus confronted their slander.� "A judge who gives opposite verdicts on the same person cancels himself out; a family that's in a constant squabble disintegrates; if Satan banishes Satan, is there any Satan left?"
[8]������ THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 12:34-37 - "You have minds like a snake pit!� How do you suppose what you say is worth anything when you are so foul-minded?� It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words....There will be a time of� Reckoning.� Words are powerful; take them seriously.� Words can be your salvation.� Words can also be your damnation."
[9]������ The next Bible passages are not in order.� Matthew did not always write in chronological order.� The other three writers of the life of Christ did.
[10]����� THE BIBLE, HEBREWS 4:14; JOHN 18:37b [NIV] - How that we know what we have ~ Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God...."You are right in saying I am a king."
[11]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 9:32 [NIV] - While they were going out, a man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus.
[12]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 26:53 [NIV] - HEBREWS 2:10 [KJV] - "Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?&"...Jesus...the captain of our salvation.
[13]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 9:33 - The people were up and on their feet applauding:� "There's never been anything like this in Israel!"
[14]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 19:34 - The Pharisees were left sputtering, "Hocus pocus.� It's nothing but hocus pocus.� He's probably made a pact with the Devil."
[15]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 8:27 - Jesus and his disciples headed out for the villages around Caesarea, Philippi.
[16]����� FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, BK. 18:2:1 - When Philip [Herod the Great's son] also had built Paneas, a city at the fountains of Jordan, he named it Caesarea.
[17]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:17, 25b - ...son...robbed him of speech...deaf and mute spirit.
[18]����� THE BIBLE, LEVITICUS 7:9 - Every grain offering baked in an over or cooked in a pan or on a griddle....
[19]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:22a [NIV] - "It has often thrown him into fire...to kill him."
[20]����� THE BIBLE, JAMES 4:7-8a [NIV] - Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.� Come near to God and he will come near to you.
[21]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:22as [NIV] - "It has often thrown him into...water to kill him."
[22]����� See VOLUME IV, FOLK HERO, "A New Age Dawning"
[23]����� SEE VOLUME V, FLOOD GATES, "Eye of the Storm"
[24]����� THE BIBLE, MATTHEW 10:1; II CORINTHIANS 12:12 [NIV] - He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness....The things that mark an apostle ~ signs, wonders and miracles.
[25]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:17-20a - "...my son who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech.� Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground.� He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid."
[26]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:14 - When they came back down the mountain to the other disciples, they saw a huge crowd around them, and the religion scholars cross-examining them.
[27]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:15 - As soon as the people in the crowd saw Jesus, admiring excitement stirred them.� They ran and greeted him.
[28]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:16 - He asked, "What's going on?� What's all the commotion?"
[29]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:17a, 18b - A man in the crowd answered, "Teacher, I brought my mute son, made speechless by a demon, to you....I told your disciples, hoping they could deliver him, but they couldn't."
[30]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:19 - Jesus said, "What a generation!� No sense of God!� How many times do I have to go over these things?� How much longer do I have to put up with this?� Bring the boy here."
[31]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:20 - They brought him.� When the demon saw Jesus, it threw the boy into a seizure, causing him to writhe on the ground and foam at the mouth.
[32]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:21-22a - He asked the boy's father, "How long has this been going on?" �"Ever since he was a little boy.� Many times it pitches him into fire or the river to do away with him."
[33]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:22b - "If you can do anything, do it.� Have a heart and help us!"
[34]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:23 - Jesus said, "If?� There are no 'ifs' among believers.� Anything can happen."
[35]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:24 - No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the father cried, "Then I believe.� Help me with my doubts!"
[36]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:25 - Seeing that the crowd was forming fast, Jesus gave the vile spirit its marching orders:� "Dumb and deaf spirit, I command you ~ Out of him, and stay out!"
[37]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9;26 - Screaming, and with much thrashing about, it left.� The boy wads pale as a corpse, so people started saying, "He's dead."
[38]����� THE BIBLE, MARK 9:27 - But Jesus, taking his hand, raised him.� The boy stood up.
[39]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:10 - He was teaching in one of the meeting places on the Sabbath.
[40]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:11 - There was a woman present so twisted and bent over with arthritis that she couldn't even look up.� She had been afflicted with this for eighteen years.
[41]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:12-13 - When Jesus saw her, he called her over.� "Woman, you're free!"� He laid hands on her and suddenly she was standing straight and tall, giving glory to God.
[42]����� RABBI SOLOMON GANZFRIED, CODE OF JEWISH LAW, VOL. II, 130-133 - Some Labors Forbidden on the Sabbath....One who is slightly ill and is able to walk about is forbidden to take any treatment....One who has a sore throat shall not gargle it with liquid, but he must swallow it....One who has pains in his loins, or the like, also one who has scabs on his head, is not permitted to smear it with oil....One who has injured his hand or his foot may apply wine to stop the bleeding, but not vinegar, because vinegar on account of its strength is akin to medicine....We are not allowed to put a cloth upon a bleeding wound....
[43]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:14 - The meeting-place president, furious because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the congregation, "Six days have been defined as work days.� Come on one of the six if you want to be healed, but not on the seventh, the Sabbath."
44]������ THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:15-16 - But Jesus shot back, "You frauds!� Each Sabbath every one of you regularly unties your cow or donkey from its stall, leads it out for water, and thinks nothing of it.� So why isn't it all right for me to untie this daughter of Abraham and lead her from the stall where Satan has had her tied these eighteen years?"
[45]����� THE BIBLE, LUKE 13:17 - When he put it that way, his critics were left looking quite silly and red-faced.� The congregation was delighted and cheered him on.
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