Cure Of The Demoniac Vs Luke's Gospel

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There is more to learn about Luke’s Gospel and the intentions of its author than can be gleaned from reading it on its own. According to most Gospel scholars, Luke based the majority of his account off of Mark’s own Gospel and a possible third, since lost, Gospel dubbed, “Q” (Nickle, 143). With copies of Mark’s and Luke’s Gospels at hand, one can compare the two texts in an exercise of redaction criticism to see what Luke had changed, and ultimately, to tease out his underlying theological agenda. A demonstrative passage for this task is the Cure of the Demoniac, found in Mark 1:23-28 and Luke 4:31-37. Examining this passage, one finds that Luke preserves the plot as well as all of Jesus’s dialogue found in Mark’s Gospel while making changes to the first Gospel’s style, accessibility to Gentiles and additional dialogue so to advance his own understanding of Christ and his mission. …show more content…

After having entered the town of Capernaum, Jesus visits the local synagogue and begins teaching on the sabbath in both passages. His teachings are met with astonishment by the attentive locals. However, a man possessed by an “unclean” spirit appears in the synagogue. The demonic spirit quickly recognizes Jesus’s true identity, referring to the preacher as “the Holy One of God.” (Mark 1:25 and Luke 4:34). Wishing not to reveal his true relation to God, Jesus quickly casts out the demon from the demoniac. Those who witnessed this were awe struck - so much so that Jesus’s “fame began to spread throughout the surrounding region of Galilee.” (Mark

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