Mark:5:2-20

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* 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 his dwelling in the tombs ; and not even with a chain could any one bind him any longer ; * because he had often been bound with fetters and chains , and the chains had been snapped asunder by him , and the fetters broken in pieces ; and no one could master him ; * and continually , night and day , in the tombs and in the mountains , he was crying out , and cutting himself , with stones . * And seeing Jesus afar off , he ran and bowed down before him , * and cried out 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 , do not torment me . * For he was saying to him , Unclean spirit , come out from the man . * And he asked him , What is thy name ? And he saith to him , Legion is my name ; for we are many . * And he besought him much not to send them out of the country . * Now there was there , by the mountain , a great herd of swine feeding . * And they besought him , saying , Send us into the swine , that we may enter into them . * And he gave them leave . And the unclean spirits coming out , entered into the swine ; and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake , about two thousand , and were drowned in the lake . * And they that fed them fled , and told the news in the city and in the country . And they came to see what had been done . * And they come to Jesus , and see him who had been possessed by demons , sitting , clothed , and in his right mind ,––him who had had the legion ; and they were afraid . * And they who saw it told them how it befell him that was possessed by the demons , and concerning the swine . * And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders . * And when he was going on board the boat , he that had been possessed by the demons besought him that be might be with him . * And he did not permit him , but said to him , Go to thy house to thy friends , and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee , and that he hath had compassion on thee . * And he departed , and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him ; and all wondered .

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