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



So great crowds followed Him, from Galilee and Decapolis, from Jerusalem and Judea, and from the other side of Jordan.

And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.

He left the neighborhood of Tyre and went by way of Sidon through the district of the Ten Cities down to the Sea of Galilee.


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