NEW TESTAMENT

Mark 1:25

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Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

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Verse 25. Christ would not suffer the devils to be produced as witnesses of his divinity; the author of truth could not bear the father of lies to bear testimony of him. Hence Jesus threatened him, in order to teach us never to believe or put our trust in demons, whatever they may foretell. Saint John Chrysostom

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