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And they came over to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
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And when he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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Who had [his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
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For 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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And always, night and day, he was on the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshiped him,
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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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(For he said to him, Come out of the man, [thou] unclean spirit.)
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And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
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And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
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Now there was there nigh to the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
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And all the demons besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
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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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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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And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the demon, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
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And they that saw [it] told them how it befell him that was possessed with the demon, and [also] concerning the swine.
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And they began to pray him to depart out of their borders.
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And when he had come into the boat, he that had been possessed with the demon prayed him that he might be with him.
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Yet Jesus suffered him not, but saith to him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
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And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him. And all [men] wondered.