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He didn`t allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them how the Lord has done great things for you, and how he had mercy on you."
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Your First Mission Field
Commentators note that while the healed man wanted to stay with Jesus, he was given the more difficult task of returning home. The very people who had just rejected Jesus needed a witness. This shows that our first and sometimes hardest mission field is our own family, friends, and community. Jesus trusted this man to be His first missionary to the Gentile region of the Decapolis, a task that proved fruitful for Jesus' later ministry there.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Go to thy house unto thy friends (Hυπαγε εις τον οικον σου προς τους σους). "To thy own folks" rather than "thy friends." Certainl…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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Baptist
And when he had come into the ship, he who had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
However, Jes…
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 …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Howbeit Jesus suffered him not He being as able to preserve him from those evil spirits, when absent, as present; an…
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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…
