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Catching sight of Yeshua, he screamed, fell down in front of him and yelled, "Yeshua! Son of God Ha`Elyon! What do you want with me? I beg you, don't torture me!"
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For Yeshua had ordered the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It had often taken hold of him -- he had been kept under guard, chained hand and foot, but had broken the bonds and been driven by the demon into the desert.
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Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, because many demons had entered him.
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They begged Yeshua not to order them to go off into the Bottomless Pit.
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Now there was a herd of many pigs, feeding on the hill; and the demons begged him to let them go into these. So he gave them permission.
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The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, whereupon the herd rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.
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When the swineherds saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the town and in the country;
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and the people came out to see for themselves. They came to Yeshua and found the man out of whom the demons had gone, sitting -- dressed and in his right mind -- at the feet of Yeshua; and they were frightened.
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Those who had seen it told how the formerly demonized man had been delivered.
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Then all the people of the Gerasene district asked him to leave them, for they had been seized with great fear. So he boarded the boat and returned.
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The man from whom the demons had gone out begged that he might go with him; but Yeshua sent him away, saying,