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And they came ouer vnto the other side of the sea, into the countrey of the Gadarenes.

And when hee was come out of the ship, immediatly there met him out of the tombes, a man with an vncleane spirit,

Who had his dwelling among the tombs, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:

Because that hee had bene often bound with fetters and chaines, and the chaines had bene plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

And alwayes night and day, hee was in the mountaines, and in the tombes, crying, and cutting himselfe with stones.

But when hee saw Iesus afarre off, he came and worshipped him,

And cried with a lowd voice, and said, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus, thou Sonne of the most high God? I adiure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

(For he said vnto him, Come out of the man, thou vncleane spirit.)

And he asked him, What is thy name? And hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

And hee besought him much, that he would not send them away out of the countrey.

Now there was there nigh vnto the mountaines a great herd of swine, feeding.

And all the deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.

And forthwith Iesus gaue them leaue. And the vncleane spirits went out, and entred into the swine, and the herd ranne violently downe a steepe place into the sea (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.

And they that fed the swine fled, and tolde it in the citie, and in the countrey. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

And they come to Iesus, and see him that was possessed with the deuill, and had the Legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraid.

And they that saw it, tolde them how it befell to him that was possessed with the deuill, and also concerning the swine.

And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

And when hee was come into the ship, he that had bene possessed with the deuill prayed him that hee might bee with him.

Howbeit Iesus suffered him not, but saith vnto him, Goe home to thy friends, and tel them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.

And hee departed, and began to publish in Decapolis, how great things Iesus had done for him: and all men did marueile.