And those who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and what had happened to the pigs.
The eyewitnesses explain what happened. They recount both the miracle of deliverance and the loss of the pigs. This is important, because the people’s response would be shaped around these two facts. On the one hand there was a man who had returned to a sound-minded life; on the other hand there was a great material loss. Here the testing of the human heart is seen. Which weighs more in a person’s eyes: the salvation of one soul, or the loss of earthly possessions? People often feel earthly profit more quickly than the spiritual miracle. This account prepares us to see that painful reality.