“Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.”
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 — the community's request for Jesus to leave echoes the Nazareth rejection. Overcome with fear (phobō megalō synechonto, gripped by great fear): the fear is not hostility but terror — they cannot manage the presence of someone who does what Jesus has just done. He got into the boat and left: Jesus honors the request without argument.
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