What word did Jesus use to cast out demons?
16When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. (Matthew 8:16)
What word did Jesus use to cast out the spirits? After this verse, it goes into Jesus crossing the sea, calming the storm, and casting out the demons into the pigs. Looking at this context in another gospel:
33With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it; 34and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples. 35On that day, when evening came, He said to them, “Let us go over to the other side.” (Mark 4:33-35)
Jesus then calms the storm and casts out the demons into the pigs. Leading up to Mark 4:33, Jesus tells the parable of the sower and soils, the seed, and the mustard seed. To my understanding, this means the words Jesus used to cast out the unclean spirits were parables. Jesus is not recorded telling the sower and soils, and the seed until chapter 13 in Matthew which I believe implies Jesus told the parables multiple times. How could parables cast out a demon? Jesus had already calmed their “storms,” then the unfolding of the word gives light, which shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overpower it.
6For by wise guidance you will wage war, And in abundance of counselors there is victory. (Proverbs 24:6)
References
Matthew 8:16
Mark 4:33-35
Psalm 119:130
John 1:5
Proverbs 24:6
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