Mark 5:1–20

A Demon-possessed Gerasene Healed

5And they came to the other side of the sea,^a to the region of the Gerasenes.^{b 2}And as^* he was getting out of the boat, immediately from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit went to meet him, ³who lived^c among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him any longer, not even with a chain, ⁴because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been shattered. And no one was strong enough to subdue him. ⁵And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. ⁶And when he^* saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him. ⁷And crying out with a loud voice he said, “What have I to do with you^d, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me!” ⁸(For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!”) ⁹And he was asking him “What is your name?”^e And he said to him, “My name is Legion, because we are many.” ¹⁰And he was imploring him many times that he would not send them out of the region. ¹¹Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding, ¹²and they implored him, saying, “Send us to the pigs so that we may enter into them.” ¹³And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out and^* entered into the pigs, and the herd—about two thousand—rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea. ¹⁴And their herdsmen fled and reported it^* in the town and in the countryside, and they came to see what it was that 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^* described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the pigs. ¹⁷And they began to urge him to depart from their region. ¹⁸And as^* he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed began to implore^f him that he could go with him. ¹⁹And he did not permit him, but said to him, “Go to your home to your people and tell them all that the Lord has done for you, and that he has had mercy on you.” ²⁰And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him, and they were all astonished.