Luke 8:37
Then all the people of the Gerasenes and the surrounding region asked Jesus to leave them alone, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and left.
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- Acts 16:39 : 39 and came and apologized to them. After they brought them out, they asked them repeatedly to leave the city.
- Luke 5:8 : 8 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying,“Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”
- Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”
- Luke 9:5 : 5 Wherever they do not receive you, as you leave that town, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”
- Luke 9:56 : 56 and they went on to another village.
- Luke 10:10-11 : 10 But whenever you enter a town and the people do not welcome you, go into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this: The kingdom of God has come.’
- Luke 10:16 : 16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
- Deut 5:25 : 25 But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!
- 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 The residents of Beth Shemesh asked,“Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? To whom will the ark go up from here?”
- 2 Sam 6:8-9 : 8 David was angry because the LORD attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day. 9 David was afraid of the LORD that day and said,“How will the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”
- 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
- Job 21:14-15 : 14 So they say to God,‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
- Matt 8:34 : 34 Then the entire town came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.
- Mark 5:17 : 17 Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.
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- Matt 8:28-347 verses87%
28 Healing the Gadarene Demoniacs When he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were extremely violent, so that no one was able to pass by that way.
29 They cried out,“Son of God, leave us alone! Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
30 A large herd of pigs was feeding some distance from them.
31 Then the demons begged him,“If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
32 And he said,“Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned in the water.
33 The herdsmen ran off, went into the town, and told everything that had happened to the demon-possessed men.
34 Then the entire town came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.
- Luke 8:38-392 verses86%
38 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
39 “Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.
- Mark 5:12-2110 verses85%
12 And the demonic spirits begged him,“Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.”
13 Jesus gave them permission. So the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and about two thousand were drowned in the lake.
14 Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
15 They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind– the one who had the“Legion”– and they were afraid.
16 Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.
17 Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.
18 As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.
19 But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him,“Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you.”
20 So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.
21 Restoration and Healing When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.
- Luke 8:26-3611 verses83%
26 Healing of a Demoniac So they sailed over to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.
27 As Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man from the town met him who was possessed by demons. For a long time this man had worn no clothes and had not lived in a house, but among the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”
29 For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man.(For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)
30 Jesus then asked him,“What is your name?” He said,“Legion,” because many demons had entered him.
31 And they began to beg him not to order them to depart into the abyss.
32 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and the demonic spirits begged Jesus to let them go into them. He gave them permission.
33 So the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of pigs rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.
34 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.
35 So the people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus. They found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
36 Those who had seen it told them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed.
- Mark 5:1-22 verses81%
1 Healing of a Demoniac So they came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes.
2 Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.
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18 Challenging Professed Followers Now when Jesus saw a large crowd around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake.
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10 He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.
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13 Then he left them, got back into the boat, and went to the other side.
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34 After they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.
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36 So after leaving the crowd, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat, and other boats were with him.
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39 After sending away the crowd, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
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7 Crowds by the Sea Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,
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13 The Feeding of the Five Thousand Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns.
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22 Stilling of a Storm One day Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them,“Let’s go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,
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42 The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.
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22 Walking on Water Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he dispersed the crowds.
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34 So he healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. But he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.
- Mark 6:32-332 verses74%
32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to some remote place.
33 But many saw them leaving and recognized them, and they hurried on foot from all the towns and arrived there ahead of them.
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31 Healing a Deaf Mute Then Jesus went out again from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis.
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2 And such a large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat to sit while the whole crowd stood on the shore.
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31 But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that entire region.
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46 After saying goodbye to them, he went to the mountain to pray.