Luke 8:35-37

The Voice

³⁵ Soon a crowd rushes from the town to see what’s going on out by the lake. There they find Jesus seated to teach with the newly liberated man sitting at His feet learning in the posture of a disciple. This former madman is now properly dressed and completely sane. This frightens the people. ³⁶ The pig owners tell them the whole story—the healing, the pigs’ mass suicide, everything.

³⁷ The people are scared to death, and they don’t want this scary abnormality happening in their territory. They ask Jesus to leave immediately. Jesus doesn’t argue. He prepares to leave,