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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Decapolis
The name is Greek for ten cities, a loose league of Hellenistic towns mostly east and southeast of the Sea of Galilee, Gerasa and Philadelphia among them. Crowds from there followed Jesus. The man freed from Legion near Gerasa went round the whole Decapolis telling what had happened to him.
The name is Greek for ten cities, a loose league of Hellenistic towns mostly east and southeast of the Sea of Galilee, Gerasa and Philadelphia among them. Crowds from there followed Jesus. The man freed from Legion near Gerasa went round the whole Decapolis telling what had happened to him.
The Decapolis, Greek for ten cities, was a loose league of Hellenistic cities mostly east and southeast of the Sea of Galilee, including Scythopolis, the only one west of the Jordan, along with Gerasa and Philadelphia. Crowds from the region followed Jesus (Matthew 4:25), and the man he freed from a legion of demons near Gerasa went on to proclaim what had happened to him throughout the Decapolis (Mark 5:20). Extensive ruins still stand at cities like Jerash and Beth Shean, among the best preserved Roman-era cities in the region.
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- panorama of Pella, a city of the Decapolis
- Matthew 4:25
- Mark 5:20
- Mark 7:31
