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New Testament
Mark 5:1-20
A Demon-Possessed Man and a Herd of Pigs
51They went to the other side of the sea, into the region of the Gerasenes.[] 2As soon as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs to meet him. 3The man lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he pulled the chains apart and broke the shackles in pieces. Nobody had the strength to subdue him. 5Night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was constantly crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down in front of him. 7He cried out with a loud voice, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you to swear by God not to torment me.” 8For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”
9Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“My name is Legion,” he replied, “because we are many.” 10He begged Jesus repeatedly that he would not send them out of the region.
11There was a large herd of pigs there feeding on the hillside. 12The demons begged him, “Send us to the pigs so we may enter them.”
13Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits went out and entered the pigs. Then the herd of about two thousand pigs rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned. 14Those who were feeding the pigs ran and reported this in the city and the countryside.
People came to see what had happened. 15When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16Those who had seen what had occurred described for these people what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and they told them about the pigs. 17They began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.
18As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to stay with Jesus. 19But Jesus would not let him. Instead, he told him, “Go home to your people, and tell them everything the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.”
20The man left and began to proclaim in the Decapolis everything Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.
Footnotes
- 5:1 Some witnesses to the text read Gadarenes; others have Gergesenes.