Mark 5:1

This chapter records the events regarding the Gerasene demoniacs (Mark 5:1-20), and the raising of the daughter of Jairus from the dead (Mark 5:21-24,35-43), and the parenthetical miracle of healing the woman with the issue of blood (Mark 5:25-34).

THE GERASENE DEMONIACS

And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. (Mark 5:1)

Other side of the sea ... that is, the eastern shore of Galilee.

Gerasenes ... In the parallel accounts (Matthew 8:28-35; Luke 8:26-40), Luke has "Gerasenes" as here, and Matthew has "Gadarenes." The actual site has been identified as being on the south bank of the Wady-es-Semak on the eastern shore of Galilee, a place called GERASA, now a ruin, on a narrow rim of the lake, about 120 feet wide, at the base of a steep incline to the sea.[1] Gadara was the principal town of the area, so Matthew called the area "the country of the Gadarenes."