“And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.”
And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way. The crossing that terrified the disciples in the storm deposits them in the Gentile territory of the Gadarenes — a region associated with pigs (verse 30), a Gentile marker. The two demon-possessed men who emerge from the tombs are the extremity of human desolation: living in the place of the dead, possessed by forces that make them dangerous to everyone who passes. The tombs communicate death; the fierceness communicates violence; the no one could pass communicates the isolation that the demonic oppression has produced.
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