Day 156: Jesus Casts Out Demons (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a Year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day one hundred and fifty-six. We are three days into reading from the Gospel of Saint Mark. Today, we're reading chapters five and six. We're also praying from Psalm twenty-one. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, the Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe in whatever podcast application you are typically familiar with, as long as that podcast application allows for subscribing [chuckles] to the podcast. As I said, today is day three of our second Messianic checkpoint, and we're reading from Mark, chapter five and six. We're also praying Psalm twenty-one. The Gospel of Saint Mark, chapter five. Jesus heals the Gerasene demoniac. They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces, and no one had the strength to subdue him.