Mark has no fewer than four exorcism accounts (1:21–28; 5:1–20; 7:24–30; 9:14–29). Mark repeatedly refers to the demons in the summaries of Jesus’s activities (1:32–34, 39; 3:11–12, 22–30). Power over demons is also part of Jesus’s commission to his disciples (3:15; 6:7, 13; 9:38–39; but see 9:28–29). Demons and unclean spirits play a central role in Mark’s story of Jesus’s ministry.
