Mark:5:19-20

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rwp @Mark:5:19 @{Go to thy house unto thy friends } (\Hupage eis ton oikon sou pros tous sous \). "To thy own folks " rather than "thy friends ." Certainly no people needed the message about Christ more than these people who were begging Jesus to leave . Jesus had greatly blessed this man and so gave him the hardest task of all , to go home and witness there for Christ . In Galilee Jesus had several times forbidden the healed to tell what he had done for them because of the undue excitement and misunderstanding . But here it was different . There was no danger of too much enthusiasm for Christ in this environment . rwp @Mark:5:20 @{He went his way } (\ap ˆlthen \). He went off and did as Jesus told him . He heralded (\k ˆrussein \) or published the story till all over Decapolis men marvelled (\ethaumazon \) at what Jesus did , kept on marvelling (imperfect tense ). The man had a greater opportunity for Christ right in his home land than anywhere else . They all knew this once wild demoniac who now was a new man in Christ Jesus . Thousands of like cases of conversion under Christ 's power have happened in rescue missions in our cities .

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