Gospel of Mark Chapter 1 Vs. 28

 Jesus Heals a Man with an Unclean Spirit

Mark 1:28 “And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.”

his fame spread... Here fame is simply report; word about Jesus went out quickly in all directions. For some at least it is likely to have seemed notoriety.

You can imagine how this would spread. These people coming to the synagogue had never seen anything like this before.

It is the custom of unbelievers to speak as if the air of Palestine were then surcharged with belief in the supernatural. Miracles were everywhere. Thus, they would explain away the significance of the popular belief that our Lord wrought signs and wonders. But in so doing they set themselves a worse problem than they evade. If miracles were so very common, it would be as easy to believe that Jesus wrought them as that He worked at His father’s bench. But also, it would be as inconclusive. And how then are we to explain the astonishment which all the evangelists so constantly record? On any conceivable theory, these writers shared the beliefs of that age. And so did the readers who accepted their assurance that all were amazed, and that His report "went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee." These are emphatic words, and both the author and his readers must have considered a miracle to be more surprising than modern critics believe they did.

Yet we do not read that any one was converted by this miracle. All were amazed, but wonder is not self-surrender. They were content to let their excitement die out, as every violent emotion must, without any change of life, any permanent devotion to the new Teacher and His doctrine.

His teaching was qualitatively new kainē and came with authority (cf. Mark 1:22) that extended even to demonic forces who were forced to obey submit to Him (cf. Mark 4:41). In summary, Mark declared that very soon euthys; (cf. Mark 1:10) all Galilee heard the news about Him.