AND they came across the lake to the country of the Gerasenes. And as he went out of the ship, a man with an impure spirit immediately met him from the tombs, read more.
who lived in the tombs, and none could bind him with a chain; for he was often bound with fetters and chains, and his chains were broken by him, and his fetters crushed, and no one could subdue him. And he was always night and day in the tombs, and in the mountains, crying, and cutting himself with stones. And seeing Jesus at a distance, he ran and worshipped him, and crying with a loud voice, said, What have you to do with me, Jesus, son of the most high God? I adjure you, by God, not to torment me. For he said to him, Impure spirit, come out of the man. And he asked him, What is your name? And he said to him, My name is Legion, for we are many. And they besought him much that he would not send them out of the country. And there was there on the mountain a great herd of swine feeding. And they besought him, saying, Send us to the swine, that we may go into them. And Jesus immediately permitted them. And the impure spirits going out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down a precipice into the lake, about two thousand, and were drowned in the lake. And those who fed them fled and told it in the city and in the country; and they came out to see what was done. And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac who had the legion, sitting down, clothed, and in his right mind, and they were afraid. And those who saw related to them how it had been with the demoniac, and concerning the swine. And they besought him to depart from their bounds. And entering into the ship, the man that had been a demoniac besought him that he might go with him; and he permitted him not, but said to him, Go to your home, to your friends, and relate to them what the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you. And he went away and proclaimed in the Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and all wondered.