When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him — the man with the impure spirit meets Jesus at the moment of landing, before Jesus can reach any town or village. The encounter is immediate — the demonic realm has detected Jesus' arrival and responds before the disciples can even orient themselves in the new location. The tombs are ritually and socially significant: the man lives among the dead, in the place of corpse-impurity, outside the boundaries of living community. He is excluded from human habitation and exists at the furthest margins of social life — the exact person who has no access to the Jewish healing networks Jesus has been operating in Galilee.

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