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LUKE 8:36 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 8:35Luke 8:37
“They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.”
Those who had seen it told the people how the demon-possessed man had been cured — the eyewitness report establishes that the transformation is not imagination but the documented result of a specific event. The how communicates the causal account: the demonic possession was addressed by Jesus and the man was cured.

Church Fathers on Luke 8:36

The Savior, as He sailed with His disciples, came to a port, as it is said, And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

Many accurate copies have neither “Gerazenes” nor “Gadarenes,” but “Gergezenes.” For Gadara is a city in Judea, but neither lake nor sea is found at it, and Geraza is a city of Arabia, having neither lake nor sea near. But Gergeza, from which the Gergezenes are called, is an ancient city near the lake of Tiberias, above which is a rock hanging over the lake, into which they say the swine were dashed down by the devils. But since Gadara and Geraza border upon the land of the…

TITUS BOST ·

For Geraza is a famous city of Arabia, on the other side of the Jordan, close to the mountain of Galaad, which was possessed by the tribe of Manasseh, and not far from the lake of Tiberias, into which the swine were cast headlong.

Bede · 8th century
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