Mark 5:1-17
Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon
1 aThey came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. ▼▼Some manuscripts Gergesenes; some Gadarenes
2And when Jesus ▼▼Greek he; also verse 9
had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 dHe lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. 6And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and efell down before him. 7And fcrying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, gSon of hthe Most High God? iI adjure you by God, do not torment me.” 8For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” 9And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is jLegion, for we are many.” 10And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. 11Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea. 14The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened. 15And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed ▼
▼Greek daimonizomai; also verses 16, 18; elsewhere rendered oppressed by demons
man, the one who had had lthe legion, sitting there, mclothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs. 17And nthey began to beg Jesus ▼▼Greek him
to depart from their region.
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