Mark 5

¹And they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens.

²And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,

³Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

⁴For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

⁵And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

⁶And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him.

⁷And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.

⁸For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

⁹And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

¹⁰And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.

¹¹And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.

¹²And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

¹³And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea.