Mark 5:20. In Decapolis. See on Matthew 4:25. The region (of ten cities east of the Jordan) of which this immediate district formed a part. The healed man became a preacher, not only where Christ had been rejected but where He had not gone. His message was his own experience: how great things Jesus had done for him. which he understood to be the same as ‘how great things the Lord hath done for thee.' Our Lord was not altogether unknown in this region, but His personal ministry did not extend further than this visit and another through the northern part of Decapolis (chap. Mark 7:31). In Pella, a city of Decapolis, the Christians found refuge at the destruction of Jerusalem.

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