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Gerasa
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"Gerasenes" is read in Mark 5:1 by the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts; also in Luke 8:26 by the Vaticanus A city on the eastern border of Peraea amid the Gilead mountains, 20 miles E. of Jordan, 25 N. of Rubbath Ammon, now Philadelphia. If Gerasa be read for Gadara, "the region of Gerasa" must include Gadara and the coasts of the sea of Tiberius which lay far W. of Gerasa. The ruins are the finest on the E. of Jordan. However Dr. Thomson identifies Gerasa with the Arab Gersa, close to the shore, with a mountain rising at the back, down which the swine might rush and be unable to stop themselves from rushing into the water. In the mountain are ancient tombs which may have been the demoniac's dwelling.
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Gerasa'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/g/gerasa.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Gerasa'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/g/gerasa.html. 1949.
