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Chapter 5

The Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac. [a](A)They came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. When he got out of the boat, at once a man[b] from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:1 The territory of the Gerasenes: the reference is to pagan territory; cf. Is 65:1. Another reading is “Gadarenes”; see note on Mt 8:28.
  2. 5:2–6 The man was an outcast from society, dominated by unclean spirits (Mk 5:8, 13), living among the tombs. The prostration before Jesus (Mk 5:6) indicates Jesus’ power over evil spirits.