Jesus in Gerasa? According to Mark and Luke, Jesus cast demons into swine after entering the region of the Gerasenes, "which is across the lake from Galilee" (Luke 8:26). The presence of the lake is central to the story (the demonized swine leap into it), but it isn't near Gerasa or its region. Other manuscripts of Mark and Luke, however, have Gaderenes or Gergasites instead of Gerasenes, and Matthew has Gergasites. Either Gadera or Gergasa (Kursi) would have suited this miracle well, for both were near the lake on its eastern (pork-eating) side. In Mark 5:20, the healed man reports the miracle throughout the Decapolis , to which Gadera and Gerasa belonged.