This spectacular demonstration of divine power is followed by the lengthy, vivid, and rather convoluted story (5:1–20) of Jesus’s confrontation with a demon-possessed man on the other side of the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Gerasenes (5:1). Gerasa (modern-day Jerash in Jordan) was a prosperous hellenized city more than thirty miles from the coast, making it an unlikely location for the stampede of pigs into the lake described in 5:13. This is