³⁷ Then the whole throng of people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes^[a] asked Jesus^[b] to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.^(A)

³⁹ so they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.^(A)

¹⁶ “Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”^(A)

¹⁰ But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’^[a](A)

⁵⁶ Then^[a] they went on to another village.

⁵ Wherever they do not welcome you, as you are leaving that town shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”^(A)

²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, shouting, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me,”^(A)

⁸ But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

¹⁷ Then they began to beg Jesus^[a] to leave their neighborhood.^(A)

³⁴ Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to leave their region.