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.”
13. At once, Jesus gave them leave. Then the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. And the herd, numbering about two thousand, ran wildly down a steep hill into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
14. Those who fed the swine fled and reported it in the city and in the country. And people went out to see what it was that had happened.
15. They came to Jesus and saw him who had been possessed with the legion of demons sitting and clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.
16. Those who saw it told them how it befell him who had been possessed with the demons and also concerning the swine.
17. Then they began to plead with Him to depart out of their region.
18. When He entered the boat, he who had been possessed with the demons prayed Him that he might be with Him.