Mark:5:2-20

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* And when he had come out of the boat , there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit , * who lived among the tombs ; and no one could bind him any more , even with a chain ; * for he had often been bound with fetters and chains , but the chains he wrenched apart , and the fetters he broke in pieces ; and no one had the strength to subdue him . * Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out , and bruising himself with stones . * And when he saw Jesus from afar , he ran and worshiped him ; * and crying out with a loud voice , he said , "What have you to do with me , Jesus , Son of the Most High God ? I adjure you by God , do not torment me ." * For he had said to him , "Come out of the man , you unclean spirit !" * And Jesus asked him , "What is your name ?" He replied , "My name is Legion ; for we are many ." * And he begged him eagerly not to send them out of the country . * Now a great herd of swine was feeding there on the hillside ; * and they begged him , "Send us to the swine , let us enter them ." * So he gave them leave . And the unclean spirits came out , and entered the swine ; and the herd , numbering about two thousand , rushed down the steep bank into the sea , and were drowned in the sea . * The herdsmen fled , and told it in the city and in the country . And people came to see what it was that had happened . * And they came to Jesus , and saw the demoniac sitting there , clothed and in his right mind , the man who had had the legion ; and they were afraid . * And those who had seen it told what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine . * And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their neighborhood . * And as he was getting into the boat , the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him . * But he refused , and said to him , "Go home to your friends , and tell them how much the Lord has done for you , and how he has had mercy on you ." * And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decap 'olis how much Jesus had done for him ; and all men marveled .

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