Tuesday, 9/1/15
With Luke giving the first three of his chapters
to his Infancy Narrative, he then devoted Chapters Four through Nine to showing
how it gradually dawned on his disciples that he was more than human. That
gradual dawning began with his day at the synagogue in Capernaum.
Luke is here asking us to join the disciples as
they wondered what kind of man this could be.
With the disciples, we are in wonder over the
authority in the teaching voice of Jesus. With their Scribes, everything they
said about heaven was hearsay; but Jesus talked about heaven as though he had
been there.
The disciples were amazed at how the devils in
possession of a man there all recognized Jesus as “The holy One of God.”
When Jesus turned on the devil possessing the man,
he commanded the devil to come out, and the devil threw the man to the ground
in an unsuccessful attempt to hang on to the man.
All
the people in the synagogue that day, were so utterly convinced of the
other-worldliness of Jesus, that they spread word about him everywhere.
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