Mark 5:1-20

MSTC^{(i) 1} And they came over to the other side of the sea into the country of the Gaderenes. ² And when he was come out of the ship, anon there met him out of the graves a man possessed of an unclean spirit, ³ which had his abiding among the graves. And no man could bind him: no, not with chains, ⁴ because that when he was often bound with fetters and chains, he plucked the chains asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces: Neither could any man tame him. ⁵ And always both night and day he cried in the mountains and in the graves and beat himself with stones. ⁶ When he had spied Jesus afar off, he ran, and worshipped him, ⁷ and cried with a loud voice and said, "What have I to do with thee, Jesus the son of the most highest God? I require thee in the name of God, that thou torment me not." ⁸ For he had said unto him, "Come forth out of the man thou foul spirit." ⁹ And he asked him, "What is thy name?" and he answered him, saying, "My name is Legion, for we are many." ¹⁰ And he prayed him instantly, that he would not send them away out of the country. ¹¹ And there was there, nigh unto the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding, ¹² and all the devils besought him saying, "Send us into the herd of swine, that we may enter into them." ¹³ And anon Jesus gave them leave; And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine. And the herd startled, and ran headlong into the sea. They were about two thousand swine, and they were drowned in the sea. ¹⁴ And the swine herders fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came out for to see, what had happened; ¹⁵ And they came out to Jesus, and they saw him that was vexed with the fiend, and had the legion, sit: both clothed and in his right mind; and were afraid. ¹⁶ And they that saw it told them, how it had happened unto him that was possessed with the devil: and also of the swine. ¹⁷ And they began to pray him, that he would depart from their coasts. ¹⁸ And when he was come into the ship, he that had the devil prayed him that he might be with him. ¹⁹ Howbeit, Jesus would not suffer him but said unto him, "Go home into thine own house and to thy friends, and show them what great things the Lord hath done unto thee, and how he had compassion on thee." ²⁰ And he departed, and began to publish in the ten cities, what great things Jesus had done unto him; and all men did marvel.