"I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie." (NIV)
While going through Mark at church this semester, an interesting point was brought up on the message in Chapter 5: Jews don't keep pigs because they are considered unclean; so the pigs that Legion (the demon(s)) goes into indicates that Jesus has moved into Gentile territory. Up until this point, Jesus has told everyone not to tell anyone what He had done for them; but when He casts out Legion, He tells the formerly possessed Gentile to go and tell everyone. So the man tells everyone in the Decapolis, the Ten Cities. One man told ten cities about Jesus. So when Paul came back to Gentile territory preaching the name of Jesus, this was not unfamiliar news to them. They had the evidence of the demoniac to support the truth of Paul's gospel, and Paul knew it. Paul's message to the Galatians was true, and they knew they could not argue.
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