Luke:8:26-39

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* And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes , which is over against Galilee . * And as he got out [of the ship ] on the land , a certain man out of the city met him , who had demons a long time , and put on no clothes , and did not abide in a house , but in the tombs . * But seeing Jesus , he cried out , and fell down before him , and with a loud voice said , What have I to do with thee , Jesus Son of the Most High God ? I beseech thee torment me not . * For he had commanded the unclean spirit to go out from the man . For very often it had seized him ; and he had been bound , kept with chains and fetters ; and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the deserts . * And Jesus asked him saying , What is thy name ? And he said , Legion : for many demons had entered into him . * And they besought him that he would not command them to go away into the bottomless pit . * And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain , and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into those ; and he suffered them . * And the demons , going out from the man , entered into the swine , and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake , and were choked . * But they that fed [them ], seeing what had happened , fled , and told [it ] to the city and to the country . * And they went out to see what had happened , and came to Jesus , and found the man from whom the demons had gone out , sitting , clothed and sensible , at the feet of Jesus . And they were afraid . * And they also who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been healed . * And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them , for they were possessed with great fear ; and he , entering into the ship , returned . * But the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him that he might be with him . But he sent him away , saying , * Return to thine house and relate how great things God has done for thee . And he went away through the whole city , publishing how great things Jesus had done for him .

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