{Go to thy house unto thy friends} (Hupage eis ton oikon
sou pros tous sous). "To thy own folks" rather than "thy
friends." Certainly no people needed the message about Christ
more than these people who were begging Jesus to leave. Jesus had
greatly blessed this man and so gave him the hardest task of all,
to go home and witness there for Christ. In Galilee Jesus had
several times forbidden the healed to tell what he had done for
them because of the undue excitement and misunderstanding. But
here it was different. There was no danger of too much enthusiasm
for Christ in this environment.