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26 They made a landing in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.
27 And when he landed, he met a man possessed by demons, who was coming out of the town. He had worn no clothing for a long time, and did not live in a house but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus he cried out and threw himself down before him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"
29 For he was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For it had often seized him, and though he had been fastened with chains and fetters, and was closely watched, he would snap his bonds and the demon would drive him away to the desert.
30 And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion!" For many demons had gone into him.
31 And they begged him not to order them off to the bottomless pit.
32 Now there was a large drove of pigs feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to give them leave to go into them. And he did so.
33 Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the drove rushed over the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
34 When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away and spread the news in the town and in the country around.
35 And the people came out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the demons had gone sitting there, at Jesus' feet, with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were frightened.
36 And those who had seen it told them how the man who had been possessed was cured.
37 Then all the people of the neighborhood of Gerasa asked him to go away from them, for they were terribly frightened. And he got into a boat and went back.
38 The man out of whom the demons had gone begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, and said,
39 "Go back to your home, and tell all that God has done for you." And he went and told all over the town what Jesus had done for him.