Mark:5:1-20

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* Then they crossed the sea , and came into the country of the Gadarenes . * He was no sooner gone ashore , than there met him a man coming from the monuments , possessed of an unclean spirit , * who made his abode in the tombs ; and no man could confine him , not even with chains , * and broken the fetters , so that no person was able to tame him . * He was continually , night and day , in the mountains , and in the tombs , howling , and cutting himself with flints . * But when he saw Jesus afar off , he ran , and prostrating himself before him , * cried out , What hast thou to do with me , Jesus , Son of the Most High God ? I conjure thee by God not to torment me . * (For Jesus had said to him , ) * Jesus asked him , He answered , My name is Legion , for we are many . * And he earnestly entreated him not to drive them out of the country . * Now there was a great herd of swine feeding on the mountain . * And the fiends besought him , saying , Suffer us to go to the swine , that we may enter into them . * Jesus immediately permitted them . Then the unclean spirits being gone out , entered into the swine ; and the herd , in number about two thousand , rushed down a precipice into the sea , and were choked . * And the swineherds fled , and told it in the city and villages . And the people flocked out to see what had happened . * When they came to Jesus , and saw him who had been possessed by the legion , sitting , and clothed , and in his right mind , they were afraid . * And those who had seen the whole , having related to them what had happened to the demoniac , and to the swine , * they entreated him to leave their territories . * As he entered the bark , the man who had been possessed , begged permission to attend him . * Jesus however did not permit him , but said , * Accordingly he departed , publishing in Decapolis , what great things Jesus had done for him . And they were all amazed .

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