The story of the pigs between the three gospels

 A famous story in the New Testament found in three Gospels, the summary of which is that Jesus and the disciples met a man (or two men) possessed by a group of demons

in the region of the Gerasenes (or the Gerasenes or the Gergesenes), so Jesus ordered the demons to leave him and enter a herd of pigs that were grazing nearby (2000 pigs),
so the pigs rushed to a cliff located on the Sea of ​​Galilee and jumped from it into the sea and drowned.

Common translation -

Mark 1-5 And they came to the other side of the Sea of ​​Galilee, in the region of the Gerasenes .

Van Dyke translation - Mark

1-5 And they came across the sea to the country of the Gerasenes.

Catholic Translation - Mark

1:5 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the part of the Gerasenes .

Catholic Translation - Luke

26:8 And they anchored in the part of the Gerasenes , which is opposite the coast of Galilee.

Van Dyck Translation - Luke

26:8 And they went to the country of the Gerasenes , which is opposite Galilee.

Matthew

28:8 Now when Jesus had come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes , there met him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly furious, so that no one could pass that way.

Common Translation - Matthew

28:8 Now when Jesus had come to the other side, in the region of the Gergesenes , there met him two men coming out of the tombs, possessed with demons, so fierce that no one could pass that way.

Catholic Translation - Matthew

28:8 And when he had come to the other side, to the region of the Gerasenes , there met him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way.

Translation of the Book of Life - Matthew

28:8 And when Jesus came to the other side, in the town of the Gerasenes , there met him two men possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, and they were very fierce, so that no one dared to pass that way.

After we reviewed the differences between the texts of the Gospels in the story of Christ casting out the demons from the possessed and allowing them to enter the pigs, then the pigs jumping from the cliff into the Sea of ​​Galilee and then all of them drowning, we find that the differences are summarized in the following table:






What is the definition of these cities in the Encyclopedia of the Bible?





It is clear from the encyclopedia that they are trying to suggest that the region of the Gadarenes is the same as the region of the Gergesenes, which is not true. They ignored the third name mentioned in the story, which is the region of the Gerasenes. This is the way of the people.

Where are the regions of the Gadarenes and the Gerasenes located?
They are located southeast of the Sea of ​​Galilee, i.e. not directly on the sea, and this represents one of the problems in the story. How
did the pigs fall into the sea, and the region of the Gadarenes is about six miles (ten kilometers) from the Sea of ​​Galilee?
Likewise, the Gerasenes are twice this distance to the southeast of the Sea of ​​Galilee. Here is the map:



But where is the town of the Gergesenes located?
It is actually located on the eastern shore of the Sea of ​​Galilee, but it is not mentioned in ancient Greek texts
. Who put the name of the town of the Gergesenes in the text of Matthew?
The one who put it in the text of the Gospel of Matthew is the Christian scholar Origen, a theologian from the third century AD.
See the Wikipedia website:







The yellow text indicates that Origen changed the text of Matthew, but what was the motive?
Origen found that the regions of the Gadarenes and Gerasenes were not directly located on the Sea of ​​Galilee, so he chose a town that was actually located on the shore, which is the town of Gergesa.
See the previous image.

It is very clear that the distances between the regions of the Gadarenes, Gerasenes, and Gergeses are many miles, and the difference in the texts here has no meaning except distortion or error.
For example, if a certain incident occurred in Alexandria, it is of no use for one witness to say that it occurred in the Apis region and the other in Amiriya, and is it all Alexandria!!
Because the argument that defenders of the Bible hum around is that the regions are close to each other, so what about them being ten or fifteen miles apart, for example?
Or the Encyclopedia of the Bible says that the reason is that Matthew wrote to the Jews who knew their country well, the name of the village in which the miracle occurred, while Luke and Mark wrote
to the Gentiles, so they were satisfied with mentioning the name of the region in which the village was located!! To answer this statement (which is any statement), review the table again, then ask them whether the town of the Gergesenes
is located in the region of the Gadarenes or the region of the Gerasenes? Review the maps again to know the locations of all.
Another question, why after Origen put the name of the Gergesenes in Matthew, do some translations of Matthew (the common and Catholic) mention the Gadarenes? Wasn’t Matthew
writing to the Jews who knew the name of the village?

Finally, an answer to every Christian who asks about who distorted the Gospel and when? This is an example of a clear distortion of the name and time (Origen in the third century).