And when he was come] Mark 5:1. Luke 8. 26. of the Gergesens] Some think them to be a remnant of the Gergashites, mentioned, Genesis 10:16. They are called Gadarens, by the other Evangelists, either because the city had two names, or else both those cities stood neer together on the lake of Tiberias, and the countrey was called, sometime by the name of the one, sometime of the other. there met him] So great was Christs power over them, that they were enforced to run to him, which rather would have run away from him, Mark 5:6. out of the tombs] Or, from among them. They were made out of the cities, and so large, sometimes, that men might hide themselves in them. These were solitary places, whither the devils carried the possessed out of the society of others. exceeding fierce] The devil fils them, whom he possesseth, with cruelty.