17And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
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And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)We have here an instance of Christ’s dispossessing the strong man armed, and disposing of him as he pleased, to make it appear that he was stronger than he . This he did when he was come to the other side , whither he went through a storm; his business there was to rescue this poor creature out of the hands of Satan, and when he had done that, he returned. Thus he came from heaven to earth, and re…
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