Mark 5:1-17

1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

2As soon as Yeshua got out of the boat, a man from the graveyard with an unclean spirit met Him.

3He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him anymore, even with a chain.

4For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been ripped apart by him and the shackles broken. No one was strong enough to tame him.

5And through it all, night and day, at the graveyard and in the mountains, he kept screaming and gashing himself with stones.

6When he saw Yeshua from a distance, he ran and bowed down before Him.

7Crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What’s between You and me, Yeshua, Ben El Elyon? I’m warning you, in the name of God, do not torment me!”

8For Yeshua had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

9Then Yeshua began questioning him, “What is your name?” And he answered, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

10He kept begging Him not to send them out of the country.

11Now a large herd of pigs was feeding on the hillside nearby.

12The unclean spirits urged Him, saying, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”

13So Yeshua gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs. And the herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the cliff and were drowned in the sea.

14The herdsmen ran away and told the town and countryside, and they came to see what had happened.

15Now they came to Yeshua and saw the madman who had had the legion. He was sitting there, dressed in clothes and in his right mind. The people were scared.

16Those who had seen it described in detail what had happened to the man plagued by a demon, and they also told about the pigs.

17And they began to beg Yeshua to leave their country.