And there was in their synagogue, &c.— It seems plain from what is said afterwards, Mark 1:27 that the other persons then present did not know Jesus to be the Son of God; how then should the demoniac know this, if he had been only mad, as some would vainly suppose, and not really possessed by an evil spirit? This case was so remarkable, that, as the Evangelist adds, immediately our Lord's fame spread abroad, throughout all the region round about Galilee. However, though madmen might not know Christ, yet the devils could not be ignorant of him, from the time of his baptism, when the voice from heaven said, This is my beloved Son, &c. and therefore Satan soon after, in one of his temptations, says, If thou be the Son of God; Matthew 4:6. See Ward's Dissertations, p. 79 and on Matthew 8:29.

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