What Word Is This?

Jesus then went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee. He taught them on the sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching because he spoke with authority. In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice, “Ha! 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!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down in front of them and came out of him without doing him any harm. They were all amazed and said to one another, “What is there about his word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.” And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.

Luke 4:31-37

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A word from the Word

The God who creates with a word, “Let there be!” (Yehi, Genesis 1:3) heals with a word, “Come out!” (Exelthe, Luke 4:35). God’s word, “living and active” (Hebrews 4:12), accomplishes what he pleases (Isaiah 55:11).

John the Evangelist reveals the Son of God, Jesus Christ, as the living, pre-existent Word (Logos), consubstantial with God (John 1:1). No word packs a greater punch than a word from the Word.

The first line of the couplet preserves the original Greek word order in Luke 4:36: “What word (logos) [is] this?” 

Traditional Chinese Translation

《這是什麼道理呢？》
這是什麼道竟能驅逐污鬼呢？
道成肉身，除滅魔鬼。