We know this to be the case because pigs are being raised nearby (v. This is an area inhabited primarily by Gentiles, and the two possessed men Jesus and His followers meet are foreigners to God’s covenant with Israel (Matt. After landing on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, the small band of men find themselves in “the country of the Gadarenes,” a region controlled by the town of Gadara, one of the ten cities of the Decapolis. Some of the disciples’ questions begin to be answered in today’s passage. Having been absent when these things happened, it is understandable that these disciples are not yet fully aware of Christ’s divinity and have been left to wonder about the identity of this Nazarene (8:23–27). Likewise, they were probably not present at His baptism, the occasion on which the Father declared Jesus His “beloved Son” (3:13–17). They were not there when Joseph was told that his adopted Son would be of the Holy Spirit (Matt. Most, if not all, of the disciples have thus far not been privy to much of God’s great revelation about Jesus.
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