{"id":15273,"date":"2024-12-15T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T14:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15273"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:53:09","slug":"question-regarding-matthew-828-and-mark-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15273\/question-regarding-matthew-828-and-mark-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Question regarding Matthew 8:28 and Mark 5:2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had never noticed that there were two demon possessed men in one passage, and just one in the other.\u00a0 I had always assumed these to be the same event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Matthew 8:28 (KJV)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mark 5:2 (KJV)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">===========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hi Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>No one knows for certain the answer to your question.\u00a0 Jesus performed many more healings and miracles than are recorded in the Bible (Jn.21:25), and with that many miracles, there were bound to be some that were very similar.\u00a0 But it may also be that Matthew told a part of the story that Mark left out.\u00a0 Nobody can say for sure.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Tell us what you think:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1868669905702449428\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1868669905702449428<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I had never noticed that there were two demon possessed men in one passage, and just one in the other.\u00a0 I had always assumed these to be the same event. Matthew 8:28 (KJV) &#8220;And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15276,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}