Gadara

(walled). A city six miles S. E. of Sea of Galilee. Jesus healed the demoniac there. Now Um-keis.

The capital of the Roman province of Peraea. It is referred to in the Gospels as in “the country of the Gadarenes.” It has been identified with the ruins at Umm Keis, 32° 40' N, 35° 40' E, that is S. E. of the Sea of Galilee, but the town is too far from the sea to have been the scene of the miracle; besides which there is a deep ravine between the ruins of the town and the sea. There are many large tombs in the district, in which some of the rude inhabitants still take up their abode, as the demoniac had done (Mark 5:1-3¹And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. ²And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, ³Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: (Mark 5:1‑3)). See GADARENES.