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because many times he had been bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been broken in pieces by him, and the fetters shattered; neither could anyone tame him.
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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and hurting himself with stones.
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But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him.
7
Crying out with a loud voice, he said, What hast thou with me, 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 unto him, Come out of the man,
thou unclean spirit.
9
And he asked him, What
is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name
is Legion, for we are many.
10
And he besought him much that he would not send him away out of that country.
11
Now near unto the mountains there was a great herd of swine feeding,
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and all those devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
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And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine, and the herd fell over a cliff into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
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And those that fed the swine fled and told
it in the city and in the country. And
people went out to see what it was that had happened.