Comments on: Where did the Legion of demons go after the pigs died in the water?

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:28:04 +0000

It’s certainly an odd request from the sick man, and an odd miracle. However a discovery in the Dead Sea Scrolls might shed some light on his thinking. In the Dead Sea Scrolls ‘Book of the Giants’ it was the drowning of the giants (fictional) in the flood which released their souls as demons. So it’s possible that the sick man’s request was a kind of reversal of this. Or that the sick man thought the opposite – that the demons would be trapped in the pigs. But Christ completely destroys both pigs and so-called “demons” in one act.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:15:18 +0000

Hi Steven, what I was getting at is that the demons here aren’t actually real. People at the time thought that there were real supernatural beings that caused these illnesses. Jesus doesn’t confirm or deny their existence but simply shows that he has power over them – which was more important at that stage than shattering their way of understanding the world.

By: Steven Parlette

Steven Parlette — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:26:36 +0000

I was not focusing on the man, are those demons present anywhere and attacking people in the same way today? If they tasted death these must be the most vicious demons around. This man had a mental illness but was severely oppressed and filled by many foul spirits . Did they not just kill the earthly pigs then be dispersed even quicker to attack someone else or just reside in the body of another? Human or Animal?