“And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.”
As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him — the liberated man wants to follow Jesus across the lake — the response of the healed to the healer is gratitude expressed as the desire for ongoing proximity. This is the first Gentile who explicitly wants to follow Jesus, and the request is genuine. The begging (parakaleō again) mirrors both the Legion's begging and the community's begging — the liberated man begs for inclusion in the company of disciples, the opposite of what the community has just requested.
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