And he departed, and began to announce in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
All Commentaries on Mark 5:20 Go To Mark 5
Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
Nyss.: Now the assembly of the devils had prepared itself to resist the Divine power. But when He was approaching Who had power over all things, they proclaim aloud His eminentvirtue.Wherefore there follows, “But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, saying”.
Mor., 37: For when we have perceived ever so little of the Divine knowledge, we are at once unwilling to return to human affairs, and seek for the quiet of contemplation; but the Lord commands that the mind should first toil hard at its work, and afterwards should refresh itself with contemplation.
