Luke 8:26 Cross References
Luke 8:26
26: So they arrived in the land of the Gerasenes, across the lake from Galilee.
Mark 5:1
- So they arrived at the other side of the lake, in the land of the Gerasenes.
- Just as Jesus was climbing from the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit ran out from a cemetery to meet him.
- This man lived among the tombs and could not be restrained, even with a chain.
- Whenever he was put into chains and shackles--as he often was--he snapped the chains from his wrists and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to control him.
- All day long and throughout the night, he would wander among the tombs and in the hills, screaming and hitting himself with stones.
Matthew 8:28
- When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake in the land of the Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They lived in a cemetery and were so dangerous that no one could go through that area.
- They began screaming at him, "Why are you bothering us, Son of God? You have no right to torture us before God's appointed time!"
- A large herd of pigs was feeding in the distance,
- so the demons begged, "If you cast us out, send us into that herd of pigs."
- "All right, go!" Jesus commanded them. So the demons came out of the men and entered the pigs, and the whole herd plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.