³⁶ Meanwhile, the eye-witnesses reported to them how the demon-possessed man was delivered.^{(A) 37} Then all the people of the Gerasene region^[a] asked him to leave them,^(B) because they were gripped by great fear. So, getting into the boat, he returned.

³⁸ The man from whom the demons had departed begged him earnestly to be with him. But he sent him away and said,