The
Gospel According to Mark
Chapter
5:18-20
18
And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with
the devil, prayed him that he might be with him.
19
Howbeit, Jesus would not suffer him, but said unto him, Go thy way
home to thy friends, and show them what great things the Lord hath
done unto thee, and how he hath had compassion on thee.
20
So he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis, what great things
Jesus had done unto him: and all men did marvel.
Brethren:
We
read in verse twenty how the formerly possessed man, had become an
evangelist, a missionary for Christ. Wherein, he went to places where
the Master Himself, was unwelcome and subsequently did not go. Not
out of fear for His Own person, but because His message would not be
received.
“To
be a missionary for Christ, in the region where he was so well known
and so long dreaded, was a far nobler calling than to follow Him
where nobody had ever heard of Him, and where other trophies not less
illustrious could be raised by the same power and grace. In this
grateful soul's petition to be with Jesus, we see the clinging
feeling of all Christ's freed-men toward Himself; while in his
departure, when Jesus suggested something better, and in his
itineracy through Decapolis with the story of his deliverance,
himself a living story of the grace and power of the Lord Jesus, we
may read these words: The liberated believer a missionary for
Christ!”
Source
- Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged
- Ed. 1871
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