The lectionary reading for Trinity 1, Year C, is Luke's version of Jesus meeting and healing the demon-possessed man in the ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, February 3, 2025, which is the Monday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, February 2 Daily Gospel, February 1 Holy Gospel of Jesus ...

In Mark 5:1, we read that Jesus and the apostles had crossed the sea by boat and landed in the territory of the Gerasenes. When they disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit met them. No one in the ...

In his book The Scapegoat, René Girard examines the story of the Gerasene demoniac, told in Matthew, Mark and Luke: Jesus arrives in the country of the Gerasenes to find the people terrorized by ...

Section G. Christ's parables of the kingdom and his journey into the country of the Gerasenes : 46. Jesus gives nine parables of the kingdom of God : The soils ; The reason for using parables and the ...

The lectionary reading for Trinity 1, Year C, is Luke’s version of Jesus meeting and healing the demon-possessed man in the ‘region of the Gerasenes’ (Luke 8.26–39). James and Ian discuss the story, ...

“Gerasenes” could have had a sense of reference to the entire region (as well as to a city: just as “New Yorker” can refer to the state or city), and “Gadarenes” likely was a reference ...