At once they screamed. With an unearthly cry! This account shows that demon-possession was not simply bodily or mental disease. Evil spirits literally took control of their victims and spoke through them. We learn elsewhere that sin prepared the victim to be possessed. [Some scholars believe that both demon-possession and the miraculous acts of the Holy Spirit disappeared after Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D.] Son of God. The demons knew who he was. Have you come? They knew Christ could not be defeated. They seemed to expect their own final punishment.

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Old Testament