1 Then they crossed the sea, and came into the country of the Gadarenes.2 He was no sooner gone ashore, than there met him a man coming from the monuments, possessed of an unclean spirit,3 who made his abode in the tombs; and no man could confine him, not even with chains,4 and broken the fetters, so that no person was able to tame him.5 He was continually, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs, howling, and cutting himself with flints.6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran, and prostrating himself before him,7 cried out, What hast thou to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I conjure thee by God not to torment me.8 (For Jesus had said to him, Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.)9 Jesus asked him, What is your name? He answered, My name is Legion, for we are many.10 And he earnestly entreated him not to drive them out of the country.11 Now there was a great herd of swine feeding on the mountain.12 And the fiends besought him, saying, Suffer us to go to the swine, that we may enter into them.13 Jesus immediately permitted them. Then the unclean spirits being gone out, entered into the swine; and the herd, in number about two thousand, rushed down a precipice into the sea, and were choked.14 And the swineherds fled, and told it in the city and villages. And the people flocked out to see what had happened.15 When they came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind, they were afraid.16 And those who had seen the whole, having related to them what had happened to the demoniac, and to the swine,17 they entreated him to leave their territories.18 As he entered the bark, the man who had been possessed, begged permission to attend him.19 Jesus however did not permit him, but said, Go home to your relations, and tell them what great things the Lord, in pity, has done for you.20 Accordingly he departed, publishing in Decapolis, what great things Jesus had done for him. And they were all amazed.