{"id":18307,"date":"2015-03-01T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18307"},"modified":"2015-03-01T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:23:53","slug":"new-testament-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/new-testament-91.html","title":{"rendered":"New Testament 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18309\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/519px-The-Decapolis-map.svg_.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18309\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/519px-The-Decapolis-map.svg_.png\" alt=\"Gadara or Gerasa?\" width=\"519\" height=\"749\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gadara is to the southeast of the Sea of Galilee, and Gerasa (probably Jerash, in modern Jordan) is even further to the southeast. \u00a0(Philadelphia is known, today, as Amman.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/matt\/8.28-34\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew 8:28-34<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/mark\/5.1-20?lang=eng\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark 5:1-20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/nt\/luke\/8.26-39\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 8:26-39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGadarenes\u201d or \u201cGerasenes\u201d? \u00a0Hard to know.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a remarkable story. \u00a0And the notion that evil spirits desire to be incarnated so badly that they would rather be cast into pigs than be at large is interesting, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Matthew 8:28-34 Mark 5:1-20 Luke 8:26-39 \u00a0 \u201cGadarenes\u201d or \u201cGerasenes\u201d? \u00a0Hard to know. \u00a0 This is a remarkable story. \u00a0And the notion that evil spirits desire to be incarnated so badly that they would rather be cast into pigs than be at large is interesting, as well. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Testament 91<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; Matthew 8:28-34 Mark 5:1-20 Luke 8:26-39 &nbsp; &quot;Gadarenes&quot; or &quot;Gerasenes&quot;? 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