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Jerash
(redirected from Gerasene)

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Jerash (jĕr`ăsh), ancient city: see Gerasa Gerasa (jĕr`əsə), Gerash, or Jerash
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The incident of exorcism with which it begins recalls earlier encounters with the demonic, above all Jesus' cleansing of the Gerasene demoniac in Luke 8:26ff.
When we read the pitiful descriptions of the Gerasene demoniac, once bound in chains and now residing among the tombs, screaming about the legion inside of him, it's hard not to think of mentally ill people we've seen wandering city streets, shrieking out their madness inconsolably.
Jesus curses no fig trees, terrifies no Gerasene peasants, announces no disturbing intention to divide previously peaceful households.
 
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