Painting Fakes

This Lent I've been thinking about one of the stories of Jesus' life, found in Mark 5:1-20, and Luke 8:26-39, with a different, abridged version in Matthew 8:28-34. The story concerns a man whose name we never learn.  He lives in 'the region of the Gerasenes' (with variations on the place name in the other gospels), part of the Decapolis on the east side of the Sea of Galilee.  This region is a set of multi-ethnic towns, with many residents being veterans of the Roman Army as well as local ethnic peoples including some Jews.  We don't know if this man is a Jew although it seems likely - none of the gospels tell us one way or the other. What we do know is that he had an 'impure spirit' - that is, he was inhabited by a demon.   "This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue h...