Whole city at your door

When evening came, that evening, when the sun had set- after sunset, - an interesting they- the people, the crowd- How soon after the event at the synagogue was this? It sounds like a big crowd- was that a result of Jesus telling the spirit to come out of the man earlier?
and the whole city was gathered around the door- polis is the word for city here- perhaps Capernaum was between a kwme (village) and a polis- in the NIV polis is translated city 86 times, town 51 and village once. Seems like a pretty big event in Capernaum- again told with a minimum of fuss- this is the town you have grown up in – you've never seen anything like this before- old bert who's been sick for 40 years has just been healed- the butcher who never shows much emotion is looking on incredulously- its all outside the door of your house. But Mark has already used amazed and astounded for the crowds reaction – don't need to dither here any more.

and he would not permit the demons to speak- because they knew him.
Must have been causing a ruckus in the spiritual realm- there's demons being turfed out in a way they mustn't have been for years (how does all that work?) must have been causing serious tremors through the evil realm- Jesus does not permit them to speak – the secrecy thing is fascinating- These were not the terms Jesus wanted his self revelation to run on- action far more important.