Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.
They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.
“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
Then he and his disciples went to another village.
If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!”
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”
Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.
Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.
She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?”
And the people of Beth Shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the Lord, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”
But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer.
Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured.
The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,