Go to thy house unto thy friends (Hυπαγε εις τον οικον σου προς τους σους). "To thy own folks" rather than "thy friends." Certainl…

Jesus suffered him not. Various reasons have been suggested why Jesus did not allow this man to go with him.

It might be that He wi…

The Lord hath done for thee.—Coming from our Lord’s lips, and having “God” as its equivalent in Luke 8:39, the word “Lord…

And when he had come into the ship, the one who had been possessed by the devil asked him that he might be with him.

However, J…

Theophylact of Ohrid: Those who were in the boat inquired among themselves, What manner of man is this? and now it…

Jesus decided to return to the west side of the lake. The man who had been possessed wanted to go with him (v.18)—a perfectly natural reaction. He …

Howbeit Jesus suffered him not
He being as able to preserve him from those evil spirits, when absent, as present; an…

Some openly willful sinners are like this madman. The commands of the law are like chains and fetters, to restrain sinners from their wicked course…