WPNT(i)
1 Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes.
2 And when He got out of the boat, right away a man with an unclean spirit met Him, coming from the tombs
3 —he had his dwelling among the tombs. No one could bind him, not even with chains,
4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, only to have had the chains torn apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; no one had been strong enough to tame him.
5 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.
6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and kneeled down to Him,
7 and with a loud cry he said: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, don’t torment me!”
8 Because He was saying to him, “You unclean spirit, come out of the man!”
9 Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “Legion is my name, because we are many”.
10 He started begging Him repeatedly that He would not send them out of that region.
11 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside.
12 So all the demons begged Him saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them”.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them permission; and coming out the unclean spirits went into the pigs (there were about two thousand); but the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned by the sea.
14 So those who were tending the pigs ran off and reported it in the town and the country-side. And they went out to see what it was that had happened.
15 They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
16 Those who had seen it related to them how it happened to the demonized man, and about the pigs.
17 Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders.
18 Well upon His getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized started begging Him that he might be with Him.
19 But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your family and report to them how much the Lord has done for you; and He had mercy on you”.
20 So he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all were marveling.