Decapolis in the Bible

Meaning: containing ten cities

Exact Match

[Upon seeing this happen] the men who were tending the herd ran away and went into the town [i.e., of Gadara, one of ten towns making up the province of Decapolis], and told the people everything, [including] what had happened to the men dominated by evil spirits.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of JesusStock Keeping

And again he went out from Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the country of Decapolis.

Thematic Bible



Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and the other side of the Jordan.

So he [obeyed and] went away and began to publicly proclaim in Decapolis [the region of the ten Hellenistic cities] all the great things that Jesus had done for him; and all the people were astonished.

Soon after this Jesus left the region of Tyre, and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of Decapolis [the ten Hellenistic cities].


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