Luke 8:26–37

Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon

^26bThen they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes,³ which is opposite Galilee. ²⁷When Jesus⁴ had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house ^cbut among the tombs. ²⁸When he saw Jesus, he ^dcried out and fell down before him and said ^dwith a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, ^eSon of ^fthe Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.” ²⁹For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon ^ginto the desert.) ³⁰Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, ^h“Legion,” for many demons had entered him. ³¹And they begged him not to command them to depart into ⁱthe abyss. ³²Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission. ³³Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into ^jthe lake and drowned.

³⁴When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. ³⁵Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting ^kat the feet of Jesus, ^lclothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. ³⁶And those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed⁵ man had been healed. ³⁷Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes ^masked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.