3:9,10
Jesus told the disciples to get a small boat ready for Him. They didn’t have sound systems in those days! And sound travels better over water, so this would enable Jesus to better speak to the large crowd. We are then told precisely why such crowds had followed Him: He had healed many. So anyone with a disease was desperate to touch Him and so be healed. This was a further reason for Jesus going out in the boat!
3:11,12
The “impure spirits” knew who Jesus was. We should note that the New Testament treats the presence of demonic spirits as a reality. We should also note that we actually have nothing to fear. The demons know who Jesus is. Men may please ignorance, being blinded to reality, but spirits do know who Jesus is. So if we have faith in Christ then we are protected by the name of Jesus. James tells us that it is the devil who flees from us if we stand firm (James 4.7). So the spirits fell down before Jesus declaring who He was. Jesus commanded them to be silent. Why did He do this? Because if the people who heard exactly who He was they would totally misinterpret it.
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