And when he was come out of the ship, immediately - (see Mar 5:6).
there met him a man with an unclean spirit - “which had devils [demons] long time” (Luk 8:27). In Matthew (Mat 8:28), “there met him two men possessed with devils.” Though there be no discrepancy between these two statements - more than between two witnesses, one of whom testifies to something done by one person, while the other affirms that there were two - it is difficult to see how the principal details here given could apply to more than one case.