³⁷ Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them,^(A) because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and left.

³⁹ They came to appease them and escorted them from the prison, requesting them to leave the city.^(A)

⁸ When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”^(A)

¹⁶ “Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”^(A)

¹⁰ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ¹¹ ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you.^(A) Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’^(B)

⁵⁶ Then he and his disciples went to another village.

⁵ If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”^(A)

²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell at his feet, shouting at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me,^(A) Jesus, Son of the Most High God?^(B) I beg you, don’t torture me!”

¹⁷ Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

³⁴ Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.^(A)