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The Gerasene Demoniac Restored

Mark 5:1-20

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Chapter 5
1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. 2 And when he got out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him from the tombs. 3 who had his dwelling among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with chains. 4 because he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and he had torn the chains apart and crushed the fetters, and no one had the strength to tame him. 5 And night and day among the tombs and in the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6 And seeing Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he says, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me." 8 For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit." 9 And he asked him, "What is your name?" And he says to him, "Legion is my name, because we are many." 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11 And there was a large herd of pigs feeding on the hillside. 12 And they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs, that we may enter them." 13 And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits, having gone out, entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the cliff into the sea—about two thousand—and they were choking in the sea. 14 And those pasturing them fled and reported it to the city and to the fields. And they came to see what had happened. 15 And they come to Jesus, and they see the demon-possessed man sitting, clothed and in his right mind—the one who had had the Legion—and they were afraid. 16 And those who had seen it told them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man and about the pigs. 17 And they began to beg him to go away from their boundaries. 18 And as he was getting into the boat, the one who had been demon-possessed kept begging him that he might be with him. 19 And he did not let him, but he says to him, "Go to your house to your own people, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and has had mercy on you." 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.