From Nave’s Topical Bible
Gadarenes
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 2Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (Also called GERGESENES and GERASENES)
- Jesus visits and works miracles among, but is rejectedMatthew 8:28–34Mark 5:1–19
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Matthew 8:28–34
When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, He was met by two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs. They were so violent that no one could pass that way.
Commentary on Matthew 8:28–342 voices
The country of the Gergesenes - This word is variously written in the MSS, and versions; Gergasenes, Gerasenes, Gadarenes, Gergesions, and Gersedonians, The three first are supported by the greater authorities.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
Hence the country between them took its name, sometimes from the one, sometimes from the other. There met him two demoniacs - St. Mark and St. Luke mention only one, who was probably the fiercer of the two, and the person who spoke to our Lord first. But this is no way inconsistent with the account which St. Matthew gives.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755Evangelical
- Mark 5:1–19
On the other side of the sea, they arrived in the region of the Gerasenes.
Commentary on Mark 5:1–192 voices
(Vict. Ant. e Cat. in Marc.) Nevertheless the exact reading contains neither Gadarenes, nor Gerasines, but Gergesenes. For Gadara is a city of Judæa, which has no sea at all about it; and Geraza is a city of Arabia, having neither lake nor sea near it. And that the Evangelists may not be thought to have spoken so manifest a falsehood, well acquainted as they were with the parts around Judæa, Gergese, from which come the Gergesenes, was an ancient city, now called Tiberias, around which is situated a considerable lake.
Pseudo-Chrysostom· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 500Patristic
And they came over unto the other side of the sea,.... Of Galilee, or Tiberias; into the country of the Gadarenes: in the Evangelist Matthew it is called, "the country of the Gergesenes", as it is here in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions. The Vulgate Latin reads, "of the Gerasenes", and so some copies, from Gerasa, a place in the same country; but the Syriac and Persic versions read, "Gadarenes", as do most copies; so called from Gadara, a city either adjacent to, or within the country of the Gergesenes; which was called by both names, from these different places.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed