Gerasene: Christ is the God who acted; girl sleeps to God; servant among them

“And the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him to be with him. But he sent him away saying: Return to your house, and tell how much God has done for you. And he went away proclaiming through the whole city how much God had done for him.” In the country of the Gerasenes Christ healed the man fiercely demonized, who also begged to be with him. But though he had healed him and cast out the spirits, he ordered him to go to his house and proclaim how much God had done for him. So he himself worked as being true God. For we do not say somewhere that he became a minister of divine grace, like one of the prophets or of the holy apostles; rather he himself was crushing Satan by his own and God-befitting power. So in his name the demons were also subjected to the holy disciples, and they themselves confessed this.

About the synagogue ruler’s daughter Christ says: “Do not weep; for the girl did not die, but is sleeping.” So was he lying? Far from it — he speaks truth. And in what way? Because it is written: “He is not God of the dead, but of the living.” For they live to God who are going to live; therefore the dead are dead according to humans, but according to the life-giving nature — that is, the divine — they have not died. So he speaks truth as God when he says about the girl: “She did not die, but is sleeping.”

Speaking with his own disciples he said: “Who is greater, the one reclining or the one serving? Is it not the one reclining? But I am in your midst as the one who serves.” You see how he lowered himself from what befits the deity and the glory…