Then the people began to beg Jesus to leave their area.
Then the whole town went out to see Jesus. When the people saw Jesus, they begged him to leave their area.
“Jesus of Nazareth! What do you want with us? Did you come to destroy us? I know who you are—God’s Holy One!”
So they came and told Paul and Silas they were sorry. They took Paul and Silas out of jail and asked them to leave the city.
All the people asked Jesus to go away. They were afraid.
And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave our country. You have become much more powerful than we are.”
And the woman said to Elijah, “You are a man of God. [194] Can you help me? Or did you come here only to cause me to remember all of my sins? Did you come here only to cause my son to die?”
But if we hear the Lord our God speak to us again, surely we will die! That terrible fire will destroy us! We don’t want to die!
