Luke:8:26-39

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* And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes , which is over against Galilee . * And when he went forth to land , there met him out of the city a certain man , which had devils long time , and ware no clothes , neither abode in any house , but in the tombs . * When he saw Jesus , he cried out , and fell down before him , and with a loud voice said , What have I to do with thee , Jesus , thou Son of God most high ? I beseech thee , torment me not . * (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man . For oftentimes it had caught him : and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters ; and he brake the bands , and was driven of the devil into the wilderness .) * And Jesus asked him , saying , What is thy name ? And he said , Legion : because many devils were entered into him . * And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep . * And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain : and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them . And he suffered them . * Then went the devils out of the man , and entered into the swine : and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake , and were choked . * When they that fed them saw what was done , they fled , and went and told it in the city and in the country . * Then they went out to see what was done ; and came to Jesus , and found the man , out of whom the devils were departed , sitting at the feet of Jesus , clothed , and in his right mind : and they were afraid . * They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed . * Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them ; for they were taken with great fear : and he went up into the ship , and returned back again . * Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him : but Jesus sent him away , saying , * Return to thine own house , and shew how great things God hath done unto thee . And he went his way , and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him .

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