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Demons and evil spirits are the angels who sinned against God. Some of these fallen angels sit chained in custody awaiting judgment while others are on earth making life miserable for people, including by hurting, tempting and theologically misleading. When Jesus came into the world, he showed that he had power over demons by casting them out of possessed people …
Mark 9:17 When Matthew describes the same event, he adds that this boy suffers from “falling sickness”, an older term for epilepsy (Matthew 17:15). William Menzies Alexander describes the boy’s epileptic symptoms in his book Medical Aspects of Demonic Possession: He screams before fainting, he falls suddenly, he has convulsions, he sputters from the mouth, he rolls around on the …
Mark 8:31 Even the disciples had a wrong preconception and thought that the Messiah would be a powerful king who liberates Israel in a worldly way. So Jesus now begins to teach them the real story. Mark 8:32 Peter believed and confessed that Jesus is the Messiah, but he had a wrong preconception of what the Messiah would be like …
Mark 7:24 Tyre was an important port city in Phoenicia (present-day Lebanon). We have seen earlier in Mark that Jesus has tried to withdraw from the crowds in order to rest and teach the disciples a little more undisturbed (Mark 6:32-34). Having failed to escape in the past, Jesus now goes away from Jewish areas and stays among the Gentiles …
Mark 5:1 Jesus goes to a non-Jewish area where most Gentiles live. The “Gerasenes” were probably non-Jews because they had a large herd of pigs. However, if the Gerasenes were Jews, they were breaking the rules of the Pentateuch because pigs are unclean animals for Jews (Leviticus 11:7). Mark 5:2 Since Jesus goes to this area, frees this man from …
Mark 1:21 Capernaum is actually called Kfar Nahum, which means the village of Nahum, and is probably named after the prophet Nahum. Capernaum was a suitable base for Jesus’ ministry because it had a mixed population, was a fairly large city and had a synagogue. Today, only the ruins of Capernaum remain and it is a typical destination for Christian …