First, healing and exorcism were, perhaps, the only type of miracles available to Jesus. Secondly, he was nevertheless an extraordinarily gifted healer and exorcist who, even more than Pedrito Jaramillo, excelled among the folk-healers of his time. Thirdly, he understood this gift as an even greater empowerment by God’s spirit than that of the great prophets of old. This experience of divine empowerment (coupled with a special sense of a close relationship with God) prompted Jesus to reinterpret,