Biblical places
Gadara
A Hellenistic and Roman city of the Decapolis, one of the proposed settings for the healing of the demon-possessed man and the herd of swine (Matthew 8:28). Identified with the ruins of Umm Qais in Jordan.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- High
- Umm Qais
- 32.6542, 35.6875
The city's own location is certain, but since it lies some distance from the Sea of Galilee, it is debated, along with Gerasa, as the site of the Gospels' miracle of the pigs.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Mark 5:1
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
Luke 8:26
And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.