Gerasa, identified with the modern Khersa, "over against Galilee," close to the lake. This was probably the scene of the miracle, Mr 5:1-20, etc. "From the base of the great plateau of Bashan, 2,000 feet or more overhead, the ground slopes down steeply,
And they went beyond the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And to him coming out of the ship, quickly a man met him from the monuments with an unclean spirit, read more. Who had a dwelling among the monuments; and neither with chains could any one bind him: For he had been bound many times with fetters and chains, and the chains were torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and none could tame him. And always, night and day, was he in the mountains, and among the monuments, crying, and mangling himself with stones. And having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him. And having cried with a great voice, he said, What to me and thee, Jesus, O Son of God most high I adjure thee by God, that thou torture me not. For he said to him, Come forth out of the man, thou unclean spirit. And he asked him, What the name to thee? And he answered, saying, My name, Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them out of the country. And a great herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. And all the demons besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we might enter into them. And quickly Jesus permitted them. And the evil spirits having come forth, entered into the swine: and the herd rushed through the precipice into the sea, (and they were about two thousand;) and they were choked in the sea. And those feeding the swine fled, and they announced in the city, and in the fields. And they came forth to see what is it that was done. And they come to Jesus, and they see him possessed with the demon, sitting down, and being clothed, and of sound mind: and they were afraid. And they having seen, recounted to them how it was to him possessed with the demon, and concerning the swine. And they began to beseech him to depart out of their bounds. And he having gone into the ship, he having been possessed with a demon besought him that he might be with him. And Jesus permitted him not; but he says to him, Retire to thy house, to thine own, and announce to them what things the Lord did to thee, and he pitied thee. And he went away, and began to proclaim in Decapolis what Jesus did to him: and all were wondering.