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When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.
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Verse 28. Two that were possessed with devils. S. Mar. (chapter 5) and Saint Luke (chapter 8), in the same passage, mentions but one man, who is also said to be possessed with a legion of devils. Those evangelists seem to make mention only of one of them, because he might be much more fierce and famous than the other. Witham.—These sepulchres were caverns excavated in the rocks, which served them as places of retreat. V.
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