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And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.
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And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain;
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because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.
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And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
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And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him;
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and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.
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For he said unto him,
Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man.