JMNT(i)
28 Then upon His coming into the other side [of the lake] – into the country of the Gadarenes [other MSS: Gergesenes] – two men, affected or controlled by demons (Hellenistic concept and term: = animistic influences, or, negative spirits), met Him on their way coming out from among the memorial tombs (the burial caves; graveyard). [They were] extremely rugged men who were usually fierce to the point of being violent, savage, or hard to deal with, so that no one was normally strong enough to pass by through that way or along that road.