Gergesa, Gergesenes

A city on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Gergesa is near Gadara, which is probably where Jesus healed a demon-possessed man and cast the demons into a nearby herd of pigs. Though the account of this miracle in Matthew 8:28 refers to “the region of the Gadarenes,” it is most likely that Matthew used the reference to Gergesa to refer to the region rather than the specific location.

See Gadara, Gadarenes; Gerasa, Gerasenes.