Mark 5:1 (NKJV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Mark 5:1

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

In the more correct manuscripts it reads: "to the country of the Gergesenes."

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Bede

And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. Gerasa is a notable city of Arabia beyond the Jordan, attached to the mountain of Gilead, which the tribe of Manasseh held, not far from the lake of Tiberias, into which the swine were cast. It signifies, however, the nation of the Gentiles, which after the slumber of the passion and the glory of his resurrection, the Savior deigned to visit through the preachers he sent. …

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