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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.
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And he asked him,
What is thy name? And he saith unto him, 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 on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding.
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And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
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And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, [in number] about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea.
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And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass.