Did some more reading. Notice in Matthew the name of the region is Gadarenes and in Mark and Luke it is Gerasenes.
I looked in Strong's and
Gerasenes has a Hebrew origin, but for
Gadarenes it just says it is another name for Gerazenes. This
map has Gergesa close to the Sea of Galilee and Gadara further away to the southeast. I haven't found anything consistent on these two places or groups.
So again Matthew uses a different name than Mark and Luke.
Why did he use a different name? It may have meant something at the time, unfortunately we'll never know.
Like I said, hard to know what was humorous a few thousand years ago.
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This message has been edited by purpledawn, 02-13-2006 06:39 AM
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