Return to thine own house] Christ would not have him depend on his bodily presence for protection against those spirits which had tormented him: but to know that he was able (as being God) every where to countermand the devils, and to save his: and also that he might testifie to others what God had done for him. whole citie] Of the Gadarens, which was one of the Cities of Decapolis, Mark 5:20. for Gadara was reckoned so, Plin. nat. hist. l. 5. c. 8.