"Peter yelled out, "Jesus!" He and the disciples moved to help. Jesus snapped his palm back at them to stop. He was fifty yards away from the disciples, right inside the temple district of the ravine. The demoniacs staggered out of their hiding places toward Jesus. He now looked up into heaven with hands held out in vulnerability. Simon could feel, if not hear, the sounds of a thousand spirits whispering foul words and vile thoughts in the air. The possessed drew nearer and nearer to Jesus, hundreds of them encircling him. In all his experience with exorcism, Simon had never seen so many demoniacs in one location. He remembered the legion of spirits in the two men of the Gadarenes. But this was a significant segment of the population of an entire city. Jesus had warned them of this location. It was called the Gates of Hades for a reason."