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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Mark 5:17 - 5:17
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And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts - Was it the owners only of the valuable property now lost to them that did this? Alas, no! For Luke (Luk 8:37) says, “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.” The evil spirits had thus, alas! their object. Irritated, the people could not suffer His presence; yet awe-struck, they dared not order Him off: so they entreat Him to withdraw, and - He takes them at their word.