Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 5:10

"And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country." — Mark 5:10 (ASV)

He besought him much that he would not send them.—The words are singularly significant of the state of the demoniac as half-conscious of his own personal being, and half-identifying himself with the disturbing demoniac forces which were tormenting him, and yet in so doing were leading him to look on the great Healer as his tormentor.