Mat 8:28-34, Mar 4:35, Luk 8:26-39 | TSK | STEP | when. Gergesenes.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. The remains of the sepulchral caverns in which the demoniacs abode are still to be seen. coming. so.

‏ Matthew 8:28-34

when.

Gergesenes.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. The remains of the sepulchral caverns in which the demoniacs abode are still to be seen.

Ge 10:16; 15:21; De 7:1

coming.

Mr 5:2-5; Lu 8:27,29

so.

Jud 5:6

What.

2Sa 16:10; 19:22; Joe 3:4; Mr 1:24; 5:7; Lu 4:34; 8:28; Joh 2:4

thou Son.

4:3; Mr 3:11; Lu 4:41; Ac 16:17; Jas 2:19

torment.

2Pe 2:4; Jude 1:6

an.

Le 11:7; De 14:8; Isa 65:3,4; 66:3; Mr 5:11; Lu 8:32; 15:15,16

Mr 5:7,12; Lu 8:30-33; Re 12:12; 20:1,2

Go.

1Ki 22:22; Job 1:10-12; 2:3-6; Ac 2:23; 4:28; Re 20:7

the whole.

Job 1:13-19; 2:7,8; Mr 5:13; Lu 8:33

Mr 5:14-16; Lu 8:34-36; Ac 19:15-17

they besought.

29; De 5:25; 1Sa 16:4; 1Ki 17:18; 18:17; Job 21:14; 22:17

Mr 5:17,18; Lu 5:8; 8:28,37-39; Ac 16:39

‏ Mark 4:35

the same.

Mt 8:23; Lu 8:22

Let.

5:21; 6:45; 8:13; Mt 8:18; 14:22; Joh 6:1,17,25

‏ Luke 8:26-39

Gergesenes.

met.

and ware.

but.

he cried.

4:33-36; Mt 8:29; Mr 1:24-27; 5:6-8; Ac 16:16-18

What.

37,38

I beseech.

Isa 27:1; 2Pe 2:4; 1Jo 3:8; Jas 2:19; Re 20:1-3,10

commanded.

Mr 5:8; Ac 19:12-16

caught.

9:39,42; Mr 5:3-5; 9:20-26; 2Ti 2:25,26

Legion.

Mt 26:53; Mr 5:9

many.

2; Mt 8:29; Mr 16:9

they.

28; Job 1:11; 2:5; Php 2:10,11

the deep."The abyss," says Dr. Doddridge, "the prison in which many of these fallen spirits are detained; and to which some, who may, like these, have been permitted for a while to range at large, are sometimes by Divine justice and power remanded."

Mt 25:41; Re 9:2; 19:20; 20:2,3,14,15

there an.

Le 11:7; Isa 65:4; 66:3; Mt 8:30-33; Mr 5:11-13

besought.

Job 1:10; Ps 62:11; Joh 19:11; 1Jo 4:4

he suffered.

1Ki 22:22; Job 1:12; 2:6; Re 20:7

Then.By this was fully evinced the sovereign power of our Lord, and the reality of diabolical agency; "for," says Dr. Doddridge, "it was self-evident that a herd of swine could not be confederates in any fraud; their death, therefore, in this instructive circumstance, was ten thousand times a greater blessing to mankind than if they had been slain for food, as was intended."

the herd.

Joh 8:44; 1Pe 5:8; Re 9:11

they fled.

Mt 8:33; 28:11; Mr 5:14; Ac 19:16,17

and found.

Isa 49:24,25; 53:12; Heb 2:14,15; 1Jo 3:8

sitting.

2:46; 10:39; Mr 5:15; Ac 22:3

clothed.

27; 15:17

in his.

Ps 51:10