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Gerasenes

Where Jesus cast out Legion into a herd of pigs

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Gerasa (modern Jerash, Jordan) is one of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities anywhere — you can walk through its columns and theaters today.

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A region on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus encountered a man possessed by a legion of demons living among tombs. The demons entered a herd of pigs which rushed into the sea (Mark 5:1-20). Also called the region of the Gadarenes.

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