Jesus reveals himself through his words and deeds. His teaching and actions impress every witness. Jesus is not like the teachers or lawyers, who repeat, interpret or give opinions. He speaks on his own and he speaks with authority, and acts as he says. His authority comes from speaking the Truth.

In today's gospel reading, we see that even the evil spirit in the synagogue knew who Jesus was: "I recognise you: you are the Holy One of God." Sharply Jesus rebuked the evil spirit and the possessed was exorcised, unhurt.

We Christians think that we know Jesus well enough; but very often we do not bother to cultivate a personal relationship with our God through prayer, or to change our lives by modelling ourselves on Jesus.