Mark 5:1

Mark 5:1-20. The Healing of the Gadarene Demoniac

1. they came to the eastern shore, but not even there was the Lord destined to find peace or rest.

the Gadarenes All three Gospels which record this miracle vary in their readings between (1) Gadarenes, (2) Gergesenes, and (3) Gerasenes. (α) Gadara, the capital of Peræa, lay S. E. of the southern extremity of Gennesaret, at a distance of about 60 stadia from Tiberias, its country being called Gadaritis, (β) Gerasalay on the extreme eastern limit of Peraea, and was too far from the Lake to give its name to any district on its borders, (γ) Gergesawas a little town nearly opposite Capernaum, the ruined site of which is still called Kerzaor Gersa. Origen tells us that the exact site of the miracle was here pointed out in his day. St Mark and St Luke using the word Gadarenesindicate generallythe scene of the miracle, Gadara being a place of importance and acknowledged as the capital of the district. See Thomson's Land and the Book, pp. 375 378.