Mark 5:2-18
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2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
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4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
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5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
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7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
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8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
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9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
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10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
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11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
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12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
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13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
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14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
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15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
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16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
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17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
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18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.