{Worshipped him} (prosekun(8873)an aut(9369)). And Jesus accepted
it. They were growing in appreciation of the person and power of
Christ from the attitude in  8:27 . They will soon be ready for
the confession of  16:16 . Already they can say: "Truly God's Son
thou art." The absence of the article here allows it to mean a
Son of God as in  27:54  (the centurion). But they probably mean
"the Son of God" as Jesus was claiming to them to be.