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• Today's "Moment with Mark" (42) - Power over Demons

  2 January, 2013

  Those who had seen what happened to the man and to the pigs told everyone about it, and the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone. (Mark 5:16-17 NLT)

  
  I think that last part must be a misprint of some kind. If you read the whole account (vs.1-20) and realise what Jesus had done in the life of the demonized man - a man who terrorized the village with his lifestyle - I would have thought they would elect Jesus as Mayor!!

  Why would any village in its right mind beg Jesus to go away?

  Because they not only saw what had happened to the man; they also saw what happened to the pigs! No doubt the demise of 2,000 pigs made a giant hole in the local economy.

  So what was more important; the liberation of the demoniac and the peace that would come to the village, or the dollars and cents lost because of Jesus' action?

  That's why they begged Jesus to leave them alone.