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1 So they landed on the other side of the sea in the region of Gerasa.
2 As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him.
3 This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer subdue him even with a chain,
4 for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him.
5 All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones.
6 On catching a glimpse of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell down on his knees before Him,
7 and screamed aloud, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, I beg you, do not torture me."
8 For Jesus was saying to him, "You foul spirit, come out of him."
9 He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
10 And they kept on earnestly begging Him not to send them out of that country.
11 Now there was a large drove of hogs grazing on the hillside.
12 And they begged Him, "Send us among the hogs, so that we can get into them."
13 So He let them do so. And the foul spirits came out of the man and got into the hogs, and the drove of about two thousand rushed over the cliff and into the sea and were drowned.
14 Then the hog-feeders fled and spread the news in the town and in the country around; and the people came to see what had taken place.
15 When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had once been insane under the power of many demons, sitting, with his clothes on, and in his right mind, they were frightened.
16 And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to the man who had been under the power of the demons, and about the hogs.
17 Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.
18 And as He was getting into the boat, the once insane man kept begging Him to let him go with Him.
19 However, He did not let him, but said to him, "Go home to your folks, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and has taken pity on you."
20 And so he went away and began to tell everybody in the Ten Cities how much Jesus had done for him; and everybody was dumbfounded.