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It is easier to dismiss people or cast them out than it is to actually deal with them and live beside them. The town’s people had tried to keep this man away by chaining him up and hiding him away. The people from town had seen the demon-possessed man many times but that had not frightened them like the sight of the man, fully clothed, and obviously in his right mind. The ones who had been tending the pigs would have been very confused in the least. This whole encounter was an amazing thing to watch. Perhaps this was a final end instead of an eternal punishment of “the Abyss” ( Luke 8:31). He commanded the demons to transfer into the herd of nearby pigs. The power of Jesus is seen in his ability to converse with powers of darkness that we humans cannot even see. A Roman legion is a military group made up of 6000 men so this indicates the large number of demons possessing him. Even demons recognize the power of God and the demons used the name of God in a vain attempt to protect themselves. The demons that lived in the man used the man’s voice to address Jesus. Mark and Luke only mention one so perhaps one of the men was the more outspoken and one stood back. Matthew’s account mentions two demon-possessed men. Being possessed by demons had ruined his life. His reputation was so bad that even the Gentiles in the nearby town had cast him out. He was an unclean man living in an unclean place surrounded by unclean animals. The fact that this man came to them out of the tombs reveals how different he was from them. Jews were not supposed to be near dead bodies. Jews did not eat pork because God had declared it unclean so they did not raise them.Īnother thing that was unclean was a tomb. This can be seen in the fact that there was a huge herd of pigs nearby (verse 11). It was a place where many Gentiles (non-Jews) lived.

The region of the Gerasenes was on the opposite side of the Sea of Galilee from where many of the other stories about Jesus take place. Then, they land the boat near a cemetery and a naked demon-possessed man (covered in blood and wearing broken chains) runs out yelling at Jesus. The disciples are reeling from the realization that Jesus could just speak to a storm and make it stop. Jesus and the disciples have just been through a terrible storm.

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If this was a movie then the opening scene would be gripping! It is the middle of the night. In 2012, the DeKalb County State's Attorney's office called McCullough's sentence 'appropriate for a defendant who stands convicted of this brutal crime.(You can also read about this story in Matthew 8:28-34 and Luke 8:26-39) In addition, McCullough was mistakenly identified in a photo lineup that 'was suggestive in the extreme,' Schmack said. 'It is a manifest impossibility' for McCullough to have been in Sycamore when Ridulph disappeared and also make a phone call in Rockford, Schmack said. Air Force recruiting station, Schmack said in a statement. Records show McCullough was in and around a Rockford post office when Ridulph disappeared, making a call from a pay phone and contacting a U.S. McCullough was arrested in 2011 and said he was innocent. He later joined the military, moved to Washington state and became a policeman in Lacey, a town east of Olympia.Īround 2010, McCullough's ex-girlfriend found an unused train ticket for the Rockford-to-Chicago trip and alerted authorities. He told investigators he was on a train from Rockford in southern Illinois to Chicago when the girl disappeared. McCullough was a teenager when Ridulph went missing and was an early suspect in the case. Local media said McCullough filed a request for release from prison after DeKalb County State's Attorney Richard Schmack, who completed a six-month review of evidence in the case, said last week that thousands of pages of improperly excluded police reports pointed to McCullough's innocence. The next hearing in McCullough's case is set for April 15.