Mark:5:1-20

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* And they came over to the other side of the sea , into the country of the Gadarenes . * And when he had come out of the boat , immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit , * Who had dwelling among the tombs ; and no man could bind him , no , not with chains : * For he had been often bound with fetters and chains , and the chains had been plucked asunder by him , and the fetters broken in pieces : neither could any tame him . * And always , night and day , he was on the mountains , and in the tombs , crying , and cutting himself with stones . * But when he saw Jesus afar off , he ran and worshipped him , * And cried with a loud voice , and said , What have I to do with thee , Jesus , Son of the most high God ? I adjure thee by God , that thou torment me not . * For he said to him , Come out of the man , unclean spirit . * And he asked him , What thy name ? And he answered , saying , My name Legion : for we are many . * And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country . * Now there was there near to the mountains a great herd of swine feeding . * And all the demons besought him , saying , Send us into the swine , that we may enter into them . * And immediately Jesus gave them leave . And the unclean spirits went out , and entered into the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea , (they were about two thousand ;) and were choked in the sea . * And they that fed the swine fled , and told in the city , and in the country . And they went out to see what it was that was done . * And they come to Jesus , and see him that was possessed with the demon , and had the legion , sitting , and clothed , and in his right mind : and they were afraid . * And they that saw told them how it befell him that was possessed with the demon , and concerning the swine . * And they began to beseech him to depart out of their region . * And when he had come into the boat , he that had been possessed with the demon begged him that he might be with him . * However Jesus permitted him not , but saith to him , Go home to thy friends , and tell them what great things the Lord hath done for thee , and hath had compassion on thee . * And he departed , and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him : and all marvelled .

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