Matthew 8:28
Good News Translation
When Jesus came to the territory of Gadara on the other side of the lake, he was met by two men who came out of the burial caves there. These men had demons in them and were so fierce that no one dared travel on that road.

New Revised Standard Version
When he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs coming out of the tombs met him. They were so fierce that no one could pass that way.

Contemporary English Version
After Jesus had crossed the lake, he came to shore near the town of Gadara and started down the road. Two men with demons in them came to him from the tombs. They were so fierce that no one could travel that way.

New American Bible
When he came to the other side, to the territory of the Gadarenes, two demoniacs who were coming from the tombs met him. They were so savage that no one could travel by that road.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none could pass by that way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none could pass by that way.

when.

Mark 5:1 And they came over the strait of the sea, into the country of the Gerasens.

*etc:

Luke 8:26 And they sailed to the country of the Gerasens, which is over against Galilee.

*etc:

Acts 10:38 Jesus of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Ghost and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Gergesenes.

Genesis 10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite.

Genesis 15:21 And the Amorrhites, and the Chanaanites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites.

Deuteronomy 7:1 When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which thou art going in to possess, and shall have destroyed many nations before thee, the Hethite, and the Gergezite, and the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, seven nations much more numerous than thou art, and stronger than thou:

coming.

Mark 5:2-5 And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit, . . .

Luke 8:27,29 And when he was come forth to the land, there met him a certain man who had a devil now a very long time. And he wore no clothes: neither did he abide in a house, but in the sepulchres. . . .

so.

Judges 5:6 In the days of Samgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jahel, the paths rested: and they that went by them, walked through bye-ways.

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
27But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him? 28And when he was come on the other side of the water, into the country of the Gerasens, there met him two that were possessed with devils, coming out of the sepulchres, exceeding fierce, so that none could pass by that way. 29And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?…
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

Matthew 8:27
But the men wondered, saying: What manner of man is this, for the winds and the sea obey him?

Mark 5:1
And they came over the strait of the sea, into the country of the Gerasens.

Luke 8:26
And they sailed to the country of the Gerasens, which is over against Galilee.

Matthew 8:27
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