The unclean spirit who cries out in the synagogue obeys
Jesus and comes out of the man. The scribes reject Jesus and on more than one occasion
claim that it is Jesus who is possessed. It seems it was always the possessed and
the dispossessed that recognized the Christ in Jesus. The Gerasene demoniac,
the Samaritan leper, the Syrophoenician woman, the Centurion with a dead
daughter, Zacchaeus the tax collector to name but a few. The scribes and Pharisees
and teachers of the law only recognize a Jesus who threatens the authority they
have claimed for themselves. But the spirit that recognizes the Christ in Jesus
comes out because it could not resist the authority of Jesus. Perhaps the
spirits that possess us would respond in the same way if we weren’t so good at
keeping them from crying out.
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