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MATTHEW 8:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 8:32Matt 8:34
“And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.”
The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men. The herdsmen who have lost their livelihood are the witnesses whose report to the city produces a response that is the opposite of the centurion's faith: they ask Jesus to leave rather than seeking what he might offer. The especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men is the remarkable datum: the men who have been impossible to restrain, who lived in the tombs and terrorized passersby, are now free. The witness is to liberation; the response is rejection.

Church Fathers on Matthew 8:33

Because there were who thought Christ to be a man, therefore the daemons came to proclaim His divinity, that they who had not seen the sea raging and again still, might hear the daemons crying; 'And when he was come to the other side in the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two men having daemons.'

Chrysostom · 4th century

Gerasa is a town of Arabia beyond Jordan, close to Mount Gilead, which was in the possession of the tribe of Manasseh, not far from the lake of Tiberias, into which the swine were precipitated.

Rabanus Maurus · 9th century

Whereas Matthew relates that there were two who were afflicted with daemons, but Mark and Luke mention only one, you must understand that one of them was a person of note, for whom all that country was in grief, and about whose recovery there was much care, whence the fame of this miracle was the more noised abroad.

Augustine · 4th century · De. Cons. Evan., ii, 24
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