²⁷ When Jesus stepped ashore, he was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothes or lived in a house, but had lived in the tombs.

² When Jesus got out of the boat,^(A) a man with an impure spirit^(B) came from the tombs to meet him. ³ This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. ⁴ For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. ⁵ Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

²⁴ He stripped^(A) off his garments, and he too prophesied in Samuel’s^(B) presence. He lay naked all that day and all that night. This is why people say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”^(C)

¹⁶ “Anyone out in the open who touches someone who has been killed with a sword or someone who has died a natural death,^(A) or anyone who touches a human bone^(B) or a grave,^(C) will be unclean for seven days.^(D)