14 The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened. 15 They came to Jesus and saw the man possessed by demons sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion, and they became frightened. 16 Those who had seen what had happened to the man possessed by demons and to the swine reported it. 17 Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood. 18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. 19 But Jesus refused and said to him, “Go home to your own people, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and what mercy he has shown you.” 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
Prayer Focus: The city folks come and discover the man who had been possessed now sitting and in his right mind. And they were afraid. They beg Jesus to leave. It seems as if they had ordered their world, by exiling the dangerous to the tombs outside the city. But now the one who had been the focus of danger was healed. What were they to do now? Pray that you might welcome the one healed by the Lord back home. Be amazed, not afraid when the discriminatory boundaries of the world’s order fall apart.
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