Mark 5:2-12

2 As soon as He got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met Him.

3 He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him any more-even with chains-

4 because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had snapped off the chains and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

5 And always, night and day, he was crying out among the tombs and in the mountains and cutting himself with stones.

6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before Him.

7 And he cried out with a loud voice, "What do You have to do with me,^[a] Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg^[b] You before God, don't torment me!"

8 For He had told him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

9 "What is your name?" He asked him. "My name is Legion,"^[c] he answered Him, "because we are many."

10 And he kept begging Him not to send them out of the region.

11 Now a large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.

12 The demons^[d] begged Him, "Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them."