CHAPTER V.

The man possessed with a legion of demons cured, 1-20.

He raises Jairus's daughter to life, and cures the woman who

had an issue of blood, 21-43.

NOTES ON CHAP. V.

Verse Mark 5:1. The Gadarenes.] Some of the MSS. have Gergasenes, and some of them Gerasenes. Griesbach seems to prefer the latter. Matthew 8:28, Matthew 8:28.

The Gadarenes were included within the limits of the Gergasenes. Dr. Lightfoot supposes that, of the two demoniacs mentioned here, one was of Gadara, and consequently a heathen, the other was a Gergesenian, and consequently a Jew; and he thinks that Mark and Luke mention the Gadarene demoniac because his case was a singular one, being the only heathen cured by our Lord, except the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman.

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