Mark 5:1-20

A Demon-possessed Gerasene Healed

1 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.

2 And [as] he was getting out of the boat, immediately from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit went to meet him,

3 who {lived} among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him any longer, not even with a chain,

4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been shattered. And no one was strong [enough] to subdue him.

5 And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

6 And [when he] saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him.

7 And crying out with a loud voice he said, "{What have I to do with you}, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me!"

8 (For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, unclean spirit!")

9 And he was asking him "{What is your name}?" And he said to him, "My name [is] Legion, because we are many."

10 And he was imploring him many [times] that he would not send them out of the region.

11 Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding,

12 and they implored him, saying, "Send us to the pigs so that we may enter into them."

13 And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out [and] entered into the pigs, and the herd--about two thousand--rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

14 And their herdsmen fled and reported [it] in the town and in the countryside, and they came to see what it was that had happened.

15 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting [there] clothed and in his right mind--the one who had had the legion--and they were afraid.

16 And those who had seen [it] described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the pigs.

17 And they began to urge him to depart from their region.

18 And [as] he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed began to implore him that he could go with him.

19 And he did not permit him, but said to him, "Go to your home to your [people] and tell them all that the Lord has done for you, and [that] he has had mercy on you."

20 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him, and they were all astonished.

Footnotes

• [a] That is, the Sea of Galilee
• [b] Most later manuscripts read "Gadarenes," while other manuscripts read "Gergesenes" here
• [c] *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was getting out")
• [d] Literally "had his dwelling"
• [e] *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("saw") which is understood as temporal
• [f] Literally "what to me and to you"
• [g] Literally "what name to you"
• [h] *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("came out") has been translated as a finite verb
• [i] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [j] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [k] *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("was getting")
• [l] The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to implore")