Mark:5:1-20

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* And they came over unto the other side of the sea , into the country of the Gadarenes . * And when he was come out of the ship , immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit , * Who had his dwelling among the tombs ; and no man could bind him , no , not with chains : * Because that 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 man tame him . * And always , night and day , he was in 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 , thou Son of the most high God ? I adjure thee by God , that thou torment me not . * For he said unto him , Come out of the man , thou unclean spirit . * And he asked him , What is thy name ? And he answered , saying , My name is 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 nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding . * And all the devils besought him , saying , Send us into the swine , that we may enter into them . * And forthwith 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 it 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 devil , and had the legion , sitting , and clothed , and in his right mind : and they were afraid . * And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil , and also concerning the swine . * And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts . * And when he was come into the ship , he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him . * Howbeit Jesus suffered him not , but saith unto him , Go home to thy friends , and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee , and hath had compassion on thee . * And he departed , and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him : and all men did marvel .

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