Matthew moves from Jesus’s authority over nature to his power over the demonic (8:28–34). Jesus has crossed the lake and arrived in the region of Gadarenes, part of the Decapolis (cf. Matt. 4:25). (Manuscripts differ on the location name; some read “Gerasenes,” an area thirty-three miles from the Galilean Sea [cf. Mark 5:1], others “Gergesenes,” which was on the seashore, in addition to “Gada…