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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.