Moffatt(i)
1 Then they reached the opposite side of the sea, the country of the Gerasenes.
2 And as soon as he stepped out of the boat a man from the tombs came to meet him, a man with an unclean spirit
3 who dwelt among the tombs; by this time no one could bind him, not even with a chain,
4 for he had often been bound with fetters and chains and had snapped the chains and broken the fetters — nobody could tame him.
5 All night and day among the tombs and the hills he shrieked and gashed himself with stones.
6 On catching sight of Jesus from afar he ran and knelt before him,
7 shrieking aloud, "Jesus, son of God most High, what business have you with me? By God, I adjure you, do not torture me."
8 (For he had said, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.")
9 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, "there is a host of us."
10 And they begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.
11 Now a large drove of swine was grazing there on the hillside;
12 so the spirits begged him saying, "Send us into the swine, that we may enter them,"
13 And Jesus gave them leave. Then out came the unclean spirits and entered the swine, and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the sea (there were about two thousand of them) and in the sea they were drowned.
14 The herdsmen fled and reported it to the town and the hamlets. So the people came to see what had happened,
15 and when they reached Jesus they saw the lunatic sitting down, clothed and in his sober senses — the man who had been possessed by 'Legion.' That frightened them.
16 And those who had seen it related to them what had happened to the lunatic and the swine.
17 Then they began begging Jesus to leave their district.
18 As he was stepping into the boat the lunatic begged that he might accompany him;
19 but he said, "Go home to your own people, and report to them all the Lord has done for you and how he took pity on you."
20 So he went off and began to proclaim throughout Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him; it made everyone astonished.