We ended our study yesterday in Luke 8:25, where after witnessing Jesus calm the storm with His voice, His disciples remarked: “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?” Maybe we don't know Jesus as well as we thought we did, and we need to get to know Him more. Verse:
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.
The disciples had seen Jesus heal many afflicted by demonic activity, but this takes it to a whole new level - a man, Matthew says there were two of them, but we are talking thousands of demons haunting that area and afflicting one or two men. Mark tells us there were about two thousand pigs the drove into the sea. When the disciples seriously asked "Who then is this", it opened up a whole new world about Jesus. Maybe we need to ask God to help us see more about Jesus.
No comments:
Post a Comment