The leaders warned Peter and John again and then let them go. They didn’t dare punish them, because all the people were praising God for what had happened.
Then all the people who lived in the land of the Gerasenes were so filled with fear that they asked Jesus to go away. So he got into the boat to leave.
The man got up, took his mat, and walked away while everyone was watching. All the people were amazed. They praised God and said, “We’ve never seen anything like this!”