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Healing the Gerasene Demoniac

Luke 8:26-39

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Chapter 8
26 Then they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 When he came out onto the land, a certain man from the city met him, who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not stay in a house but in the tombs. 28 Seeing Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me." 29 For he was commanding the unclean spirit to come out from the man. For many times it had seized him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters and guarded, and breaking the bonds he was driven by the demon into the wildernesses. 30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him. 31 And they were begging him not to command them to go away into the Abyss. 32 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain. And they begged him to permit them to enter those pigs, and he permitted them. 33 The demons came out from the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned. 34 But seeing what had happened, the herdsmen fled and reported it in the city and in the fields. 35 And they went out to see what had happened and came to Jesus, and found the man—from whom the demons had gone out—clothed and in his right mind, sitting at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid. 36 They told them how the one who had been demon-possessed had been saved, as those who had seen it reported. 37 Then the whole crowd of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they were seized with great fear. But he got into the boat and returned. 38 However, the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him to be with him. But he sent him away, saying, 39 "Return to your house and tell what God has done for you." And he went through the whole city proclaiming what Jesus had done for him.