“Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,”
The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying — the liberated man's desire to follow echoes the disciples' calls: he wants to remain with the one who has transformed his life. Jesus sends him back — not rejection but commissioning. The man who was excluded from community becomes the missionary to his own community.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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