“And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.”
She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone — the verification of the healing is domestic and immediate: the woman goes home and finds exactly what Jesus declared. The child lying on the bed is the picture of natural rest rather than the violent, uncontrolled behavior of the possessed — the bed is now a place of peaceful rest rather than the tombs-and-hills wandering of the Gerasene man. The demon gone is the complete fulfillment of the request: the demon has left, not merely been suppressed.
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