Today we look at Luke's account of Jesus' interaction with the demon-driven man:

8:26 Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 When Jesus had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house but among the tombs. 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.” 29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.) 30 Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him. 31 And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss. 32 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. 33 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

Luke does a great job of explaining to Theophilus, his prime recipient, step by step where Jesus was, and the chronic condition this man was in - being driven by the demons to do things no person in their right mind would do.  Something that strikes me here is the high value God places on this one (or in Matthew's account, two) human beings, sacrificing 2000 pigs for his deliverance.  This is a common theme in the Gospels: how much more valuable we are to God than the birds, that He leaves 99 sheep for the lost one, that he stops in a crowd to reach out to one person who cannot get to Him on their own.  His actions and words say much about the value of human life, and His determination to reach the world one person at a time.  May we have the same perspective He does.