1. They went to the other side of the sea to the region of the Gadarenes.
2. When He had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him.
3. He lived among the tombs. And no one could constrain him, not even with chains,
4. because he had often been bound with shackles and chains. But he had pulled the chains apart and broken the shackles to pieces. And no one could subdue him.
5. Always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.
6. But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran up and kneeled before Him,
7. and cried out with a loud voice, “What have You to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure You by God, do not torment me.”
8. For Jesus said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”
9. Then He asked him, “What is your name?”He answered, “My name is Legion. For we are many.”
10. And he begged Him repeatedly not to send them away out of the country.
11. Now there was a great herd of swine feeding near the mountains.
12. All the demons pleaded with Him, asking, “Send us to the swine, so that we may enter them.”