Twentieth_Century(i)
2 And, as soon as Jesus had got out of the boat, he met a man coming out of the tombs, who was under the power of a foul spirit,
3 And who made his home in the tombs. No one had ever been able to secure him, even with a chain;
4 For, though he had many times been left secured with fetters and chains, he had snapped the chains and broken the fetters to pieces, and no one could master him.
5 Night and day alike, he was continually shrieking in the tombs and among the hills, and cutting himself with stones.
6 Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed to the ground before him,
7 Shrieking out in a loud voice: "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? For God's sake do not torment me!"
8 For Jesus had said: "Come out from the man, you foul spirit."
9 And he asked him: "What is your name?" "My name," he said, "is Legion, for there are many of us;"
10 and he begged Jesus again and again not to send them away out of that country.
11 There was a large drove of pigs close by, feeding on the hill- side.
12 And the spirits begged Jesus: "Send us into the pigs, that we may take possession of them."
13 Jesus gave them leave. They came out, and entered into the pigs; and the drove--about two thousand in number--rushed down the steep slope into the Sea and were drowned in the Sea.
14 On this the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country round; and the people went to see what had happened.
15 When they came to Jesus, they found the possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind--the very man who had had the 'Legion' in him--and they were awe-struck.
16 Then those who had seen it related to them all that had happened to the possessed man, as well as about the pigs;
17 Upon which they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.
18 As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.