In this reading, we have Jesus being swamped from all sides, and people from all over the coming to see Him do miracles. So much so that He and His disciples had to get a boat ready to escape the amount of people coming to see Him.
Check this out, people possessed by evil spirits would throw themselves onto the ground, and proclaim, "You are the Son of God!" But Jesus commanded the spirits not to reveal who He was."
Even the possessed acknowledged who Jesus was, but no one in the crowd seemed to catch on.
In the later versus, we have Jesus choosing his apostles, and they "were to accompany him, and he would send them out to preach, giving them authority to cast out demons."
Even Jesus needed some help with preaching and doing miracles. One of the neatest things that you read was in vs. 17 were Jesus gives James and John the nickname "Sons of Thunder" very cool ... but I wonder why? Was it their ability to speak with power? Were they built like Arnold Schwarzenegger?? A neat little thing in scripture that we can speculate on.
If Jesus needed to have help with His ministry, what does that say about us? Are we the type of person that we like to do everything on our own? Or do we tackle a task that is big, with help from others?
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