“And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
All the people were amazed and said to each other, what words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out — the amazement combines authority (exousia) and power (dynamis) — the two dimensions of Jesus' ministry. What words: the exorcism is interpreted as a verbal act — the command is the act. The spirits obey the word: this is the word of the one through whom the cosmos was created (John 1:1–3).
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