![]() ![]() ![]() Besides our passage in Matthew, this account is reported in Mark 5:1-20 and Luke 8:26-39, both of which are longer than Matthew’s account. The so-called “synoptic gospels,” Matthew, Mark and Luke, often record the same events but slightly differently. And when they saw Him, they pleaded with Him to leave their region. 34 Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. 33 Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. 31 The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”ģ2 He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”ģ0 Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. 29 “What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. Reading the TextĢ8 When He arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met Him. But when Jesus came to their area, He brought deliverance for them from the powers of darkness. We use the expression “demon-possessed” to describe these folks, because the demons took control of their faculties and tormented and twisted their lives out of control. But now in His public ministry Jesus encountered humans who had been so controlled by evil forces that they were completely out of control. Matthew has already recorded the account of the temptation in which Jesus overcame Satan, the prince of demons. ![]() We continue now in this section of Matthew with a passage that shows that Jesus had authority over the spiritual world, or to be more precise, the world of spirits. ![]()
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