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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Mat 8:28 — And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
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Mar 5:1; etc.; Luk 8:26; etc.; Act 10:38 |
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Gergesenes
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Some are of opinion that Gergasa was the country of the ancient Girgashites; but it is more probable the Gergesenes was introduced by Origen upon mere conjecture; as before him most copies seem to have read Gadarenes, agreeable to the Parallel Passages and the ancient Syriac version. Gadara, says Josephus, was the metropolis of Peraea, or the region beyond Jordan; and he also observes that it was sixty furlongs, or about eight miles from Tiberias. It is therefore rightly placed opposite Tiberias, at the southeast end of the lake. Pliny says it was called Hippodion, was one of the cities of Decapolis, and had the river Hieromax, or Jarmouk, flowing before it. It was of heathen jurisdiction; whence perhaps it was destroyed by the Jews; but was rebuilt by Pompey, and joined to the province of Syria. Augustus afterwards gave it to Herod, on whose death it was again annexed to Syria. It is now called Om Keis; its ruins are in a very mutilated state, and when visited by Burckhardt it had not a single inhabitant. Th |
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Mar 5:2-5; Luk 8:27,29 |
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Jdg 5:6 |
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Mar 5:1 |
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. |
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Luk 8:26 |
And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee. |
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Act 10:38 |
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. |
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Mar 5:2 |
And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, |
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Mar 5:3 |
Who had [his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: |
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Mar 5:4 |
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any [man] tame him. |
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Mar 5:5 |
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. |
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Luk 8:27 |
And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in [any] house, but in the tombs. |
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Luk 8:29 |
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) |
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Jdg 5:6 |
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 8:28," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mat/8/28.html>.
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