16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.



Ver. 16. They come to Jesus] And, amazed with the miracle, they expostulate not an injury; but, acknowledging him Lord of all, they beg him to be gone, lest they should sustain further loss by him. The devil shall have his dwelling again in themselves rather than in their pigs (as the martyr Bradford phrased it): they will rather lose Christ than their porkers.



And in his right mind] Sanguis medici factus est medicina phrenetici. The surgeon’s blood was the sick man’s salve.