<p>5:1- see on Mk. 10:28. For a detailed study on this incident, see my discussion of it in <a href=http://www.realdevil.info/4-3-1.htm><i>The Real Devil</i></a><em>. </em>See too commentary on Matthew 8 and Luke 8.</p><p><em>And they came to the other side of the sea- </em>The Gospel records, Mark especially, often paint a broad scene and then zoom in upon the person of Jesus. Mark does this by using a plural verb <em>without an explicit subject</em> to paint a picture of the disciples or crowd generally; and then follows this by a singular verb or pronoun referring specifically to Jesus. Here are some examples: &quot;They came to the other side... and when He had stepped out of the boat&quot; (Mk. 5:1,2); &quot;when they came from Bethany, he was hungry&quot; (Mk. 8:22); &quot;they went to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples...&quot; (Mk. 14:32). The grammatical feature is more evident in Greek than in English. If the writer of Mark had been a cameraman, he'd have taken a broad sweep, and then suddenly hit the zoom to focus right up close upon Jesus Himself. This is what is being done with words, and it reflects the Christ-centeredness of the whole narrative and preaching of the Gospel, of which the Gospels are transcripts.</p><p><em>Into the country of the Gerasenes</em>- The &quot;Girgashites&quot; of Dt. 7:1, some of the original inhabitants of Canaan who had never been cast out of the land as intended by God. These men stopped anyone passing along the way or road. The point may be that those whom Israel should've 'cast out' to secure their inheritance of the Kingdom were finally cast out by Christ. This lays the basis for the language of 'casting out' the demons into the lake.</p>