Mark 5:1

Then Jesus and his followers went to the other side of the lake, to the country called Gerasene.

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In The King James Version

And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

In Context

2There was a man there that had a bad spirit in him. He was like a crazy man. He camped in the cemetery there. Before Jesus came to that place, that man walked around in the cemetery, and all over the hills there, and he yelled out and screamed all the time. He did that in the day time and also at night time. And he cut himself with stones. People couldn’t tie him up, not even with chains. They tried to do that lots of times. They tied up his hands and his feet, but it was no good. He was too strong. He just broke those chains every time. Nobody was strong enough to hold him or make him sit down quiet. When Jesus got out of the boat,

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Matthew Henry on Mark 5:1

In this chapter, we have, I. Christ's casting the legion of devils out of the man possessed, and suffering them to enter into the swine, ver. 1-20 . II. Christ's healing the woman with the bloody issue, in the way as he was going to raise Jairus's daughter to life, ver. 21-43 . These three miracles we had the story of before ( Matt. viii. 28, and Matt. ix. 18 , and c.) but more fully related here. Read the whole commentary →

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