1:24 What have you to do with us. This idiom distances the speaker from the person addressed. It occurs one other place in the New Testament (John 2:4).

Nazareth. Lit. “Nazarene.” Nazareth, west of the Sea of Galilee, was Jesus’ hometown.

Holy One of God. Jesus is described this way only in this incident (Luke 4:34). The demons quake in the presence of divine holiness.