It looks like a confession, but here it must be understood in the framework of the custom of achieving power over a demon or over the person who seeks to drive him out, by naming him. This displays the demon’s fear. He wards Jesus off.1
It looks like a confession, but here it must be understood in the framework of the custom of achieving power over a demon or over the person who seeks to drive him out, by naming him. This displays the demon’s fear. He wards Jesus off.1
24 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God.”