Directions

1. Have students read the Gospel passage for the week and complete the focus questions.
2. Review and discuss the answers when complete.
3. Have students read the prayer excerpt from the rite of Exorcism and write a short reaction/reflection in response to it using the questions that follow it as a guide.
4. When your students have finished, ask for volunteers to share and discuss their responses.

Answer Key

Focus Questions

1. Because He taught as one having authority, and not as one of the scribes.
2. He had an unclean spirit.
3. “The Holy One of God.”
4. Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to be quiet and to come out of the man. The unclean spirit obeyed. It convulsed and came out of the man with a loud cry.
5. Throughout the whole region of Galilee.

Directions

1. Read the Gospel passage aloud to your students as they follow along. Then discuss the focus and reflection questions with them as a class.
2. Have students complete the Jesus Cures the Demoniac Search and Find activity.
3. When your students have finished, have them answer the reflection question. Ask for volunteers to share their answers with the class as you lead a short discussion on what it means to teach with authority.

Answer Key

Focus Questions

1. They were astonished because He taught as one having authority, and not as one of the scribes.
2. He had an unclean spirit.
3. “The Holy One of God.”
4. Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to be quiet and to come out of the man. The unclean spirit obeyed. It convulsed and came out of the man with a loud cry.

Search and Find

The answers for the Search and Find is in the Answer Key: The Cure of a Demoniac resource.