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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gadarene
Matthew sets the healing here, in the country around Gadara, one of the Decapolis cities east of the Sea of Galilee, where the spirits went into a herd of pigs. Other manuscripts and the parallels read Gerasene or Gergesene. Gadara itself is Umm Qais in Jordan now, with its Roman ruins dug out.
Matthew sets the healing here, in the country around Gadara, one of the Decapolis cities east of the Sea of Galilee, where the spirits went into a herd of pigs. Other manuscripts and the parallels read Gerasene or Gergesene. Gadara itself is Umm Qais in Jordan now, with its Roman ruins dug out.
Gadarene identifies the region around Gadara, one of the cities of the Decapolis east of the Sea of Galilee, as the setting where Jesus healed a demon-possessed man, or two men in Matthew's account, and sent the spirits into a herd of pigs. Some manuscripts and Gospel parallels instead read Gerasene or Gergesene, reflecting the difficulty of pinning the miracle to one of several towns in the area; Gadara itself, modern Umm Qais in Jordan, preserves an impressive set of excavated Roman ruins.
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- Matthew 8:28
