Mark 5:16

Study note

Setting — The healed man sits clothed and sane before a fearful crowd, and the eyewitnesses narrate the events to those present.

The words — διηγήσαντο (diēgēsanto), "they related," and ἰδόντες (idontes), "having seen," frame the account as a direct report of how the event occurred.

The thread — This eyewitness declaration pattern appears in Acts 4:20 and Luke 1:2, where firsthand witnesses deliver factual accounts to establish what transpired.

Why it lands — The text states that observers described the man's restoration and the pigs' destruction before the crowd begged Jesus to leave. The reader must confront the factual testimony and the immediate human response that follows divine intervention.

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