Mark 3:1-6 Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. 2When he got out of the boat, at once a man from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.

And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went ... which makes a way out of this situation where there was no way out before. The Healing of the Demon-Possessed Gadarene Man And ...

The scene of Jesus’s healing is largely Gentile territory, in which ritually unclean swine were farmed. The point is underlined by the language of the demoniac, as he uses the pagan formula “Most High ...

In fact, healing is a constitutive element of Jesus’ ministry. His first miracles in the Gospel of Mark are casting a demon from a man and healing a woman with a fever. In the whole of the ...