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For already He had been commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. For many a time it had seized and held him, and they had repeatedly put him in chains and fetters and kept guard over him, but he used to break the chains to pieces, and, impelled by the demon, to escape into the Desert.
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"What is your name?" Jesus asked him. "Legion," he replied--because a great number of demons had entered into him;
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and they besought Him not to command them to be gone into the Bottomless Pit.
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Now there was a great herd of swine there feeding on the hill-side; and the demons begged Him to give them leave to go into them, and He gave them leave.
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The demons came out of the man and left him, and entered into the swine; and the herd rushed violently over the cliff into the Lake and were drowned.
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The swineherds, seeing what had happened, fled and reported it both in town and country;
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whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified.
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And those who had seen it told them how the demoniac was cured.
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Then the whole population of the Gerasenes and of the adjacent districts begged Him to depart from them; for their terror was great. So He went on board and returned.
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But the man from whom the demons had gone out earnestly asked permission to go with Him; but He sent him away.
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"Return home," He said, "and tell there all that God has done for you." So he went and published through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.