1And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.2And when he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him from the tombs.3He had his dwelling among the tombs, and no one was any longer able to bind him with a chain.4For he had often been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the fetters had been broken, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.5And through every night and day he was among the tombs and in the mountains, crying out and cutting himself with stones.6And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.7And crying out with a loud voice he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me."8For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit."9And he asked him, "What is your name?" And he said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."10And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.11Now there was there, near the mountain, a great herd of pigs feeding.12And they begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them."13And he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, about two thousand of them, and were drowned in the sea.14And the herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the countryside, and people came to see what had happened.15And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the one who had had the legion, and they were afraid.16And those who had seen it told them how it happened to the demon-possessed man and about the pigs.17And they began to beg him to depart from their region.18And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged him that he might be with him.19And he did not permit him, but said to him, "Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has had mercy on you."20And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed.