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  The previous Bible texts I read highlights the importance of escaping the temptation of demons and abiding God. For instance, Job suffered a great deal undergoing the demon’s mental intrusion and starts to doubt God. So although he encounters God in the end and is deemed blameless, the text elaborates in detail how humans are greatly tormented by the evil and overcoming it eventually bestows true salvation. However, I was surprised how Luke diverges from this tradition; the presence of demons here is very trivial. They only serve as a minor tool to demonstrate the superiority of Jesus as he casts them out so easily. Luke himself uses phrases such as “easily” and “as soon as” to imply how much the casting was effortless. Instead, Luke emphasizes on how the humanity is already rotten from its core, requiring massive salvation. The intercourse between Jesus and Pharisees arises as the central clash within the text and uses the Pharisees as the reflection of sinful humanity. As a result,