Riverside(i)
1 THEY came to the other side of the lake, to the land of the Gerasenes.
2 When he got out of the boat, immediately there came out of the tombs to meet him a man under the power of an impure spirit.
3 This man made his dwelling in the tombs, and nobody could bind him even with a chain,
4 because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart and the fetters broken in pieces by him, and no one was strong enough to tame him.
5 All night and all day long he was in the tombs and in the mountains, shrieking and cutting himself with stones.
6 When he saw Jesus a long way off, he ran and knelt to him
7 and shouted with a loud voice, "What have I and you to do with each other, Jesus, Son of God most high? I adjure you by God, not to torment me."
8 For Jesus had said to him, "Come out from the man, you impure spirit."
9 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "Legion is my name, for we are many."
10 Then he begged Jesus earnestly not to send them out of the country.
11 There was on the mountain-side a great herd of swine feeding,
12 and the demons begged him, "Send us to the swine and let us go into them."
13 He consented. The impure spirits came out of the man and entered into the swine. Then the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned in the lake.
14 At this, those who were feeding them fled and told it in the city and in the fields, and people came to see what had happened.
15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the demoniac, the man who had had the legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind. They were struck with awe.
16 Those who had seen it told them about what had happened to the demoniac and about the swine.
17 Then they began to beg him to go away from their neighborhood.
18 As Jesus was entering the boat, the man who had been demoniac begged him to let him stay with him.
19 He, however, did not consent, but said, "Go to your own house and to your family, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you."
20 So he went away and began to make known in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and all were astonished.