And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.
If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
Jesus disclosed that God is compassionate. Jesus spoke of God that way: "Be compassionate, as God is compassionate. " Compassion is the primary quality of the central figures in two of his most famous parables: the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan. And Jesus himself, as a manifestation of the sacred, is often spoken of as embodying compassion.