Most of our readers, however, know that Peter really wasn't the first pope. 325 C.E. This marked the marriage of Church and State, and the beginning of Roman Catholicism as we know it today-although the foundations for Catholicism were laid over a century earlier. Frankly, I doubt that Peter even got to Rome. Yeshua saw someone who was sick, and couldn't resist healing her. When miracles take place, word gets around.
Stories spread especially quickly in small towns.
Tell the town gossip, and soon everybody knows. In those days, most people lived in small towns. And he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick. As I read through the New Testament, it seems apparent that there was more demonic activity going on than in the Tanakh, perhaps much more so than today even. Most illnesses today are physical, or even mental, in nature.