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Gergesenes

Town · also Gadara

Location disputed Kursi: about 120 km (75 miles) north of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

  • Kursi Possible
  • Umm Qais Well established

Gadara in the Bible Dictionary · The Ministry of Jesus

Named in 1 Verse

  • Matthew 8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

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