Mark’s account of the healing of the Gerasene Demoniac is a powerful story for us, here and now in the US in 2010. Ched Myers, first of all, parallels this story with the exorcism in the synagogue which occurs earlier in Mark’s account. Jesus confronted the power of the Scribal class when he performed that exorcism. Now, in the land of the Gerasenes, Jesus repudiates the imperial power of Rome. Continue reading →