battles.” Jeremias gives preeminence to Jesus’ dramatic personal separation from the contemporary Jewish view of demons which saw them as “individual beings in one sense, operating on their own. Thus their detailed lists of the names of demons.”2 Jeremias says, “Jesus changed all that. He stressed the connection between the appearance of the demons and Satan. He expressed this connection with a variety of pictures.” First, “Satan appears as a commander of a military force” (Luke 10:19) dunamis. “Next