NOTES
Kim Hersey

1. The setting is very similar in Luke’s account, where the parable follows immediately after the Beelzebul controversy and parables about the power of God (Luke 11:14-23).
2. Some examples include: being made blind and mute (Matt. 12:22-23), being violent and self-mutilating (Mark 5:2-5), and causing seizures (Matt. 17:14-18).
3. For accounts of exorcisms, see: Matthew 8:28-32; 12:22-23; 17:14-18, and Luke 4:3-36, among others.
4. Jeremias 197. Buttrick also adds that this stems from Old Testament passages such as Is. 13:21 and 34:14 (43).