As One with Authority (Mark 1:21-28)
When Jesus exorcises the demons, thereby healing an unclean man in the synagogue, he announces by that act that the rules on earth have changed. Jesus throws open the doors to welcome that wide swath of humanity that has been systematically excluded—the blind, the lame, the unclean, the poor, the forgotten, the homeless, the sick, the crazy—all those whom the religious establishment has successfully kept out. Jesus speaks a few words and lays waste to the little kingdoms of those who always seem to retain power through exclusion—just like the Prophet Muhammad said: a word of truth in the presence of a tyrant.
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