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He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
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Verse 1. Over all devils; so that none should be able to resist them. For all were not equally easy to be expelled, as we shall see in this same chapter, in the person of a possessed child, whom the apostles could not heal, because they did not use prayer and fasting against it; and because their faith was not sufficiently strong and ardent. Calmet.
TR reads “his twelve disciples” instead of “the twelve”
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