Mark 5:11–20

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.