Mark 5:1-20

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Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man^(A)^(B)

5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.^[a] ²When Jesus got out of the boat,^(C) a man with an impure spirit^(D) came from the tombs to meet him. ³This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. ⁴For 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. ⁵Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

⁶When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. ⁷He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me,^(E) Jesus, Son of the Most High God?^(F) In God’s name don’t torture me!” ⁸For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!”

⁹Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,”^(G) he replied, “for we are many.” ¹⁰And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.

¹¹A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. ¹²The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” ¹³He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.

¹⁴Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened. ¹⁵When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion^(H) of demons,^(I) sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. ¹⁶Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man—and told about the pigs as well. ¹⁷Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

¹⁸As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. ¹⁹Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them^(J) how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” ²⁰So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis^[b]^(K) how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

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Footnotes

Mark 5:1 Some manuscripts Gadarenes; other manuscripts Gergesenes
Mark 5:20 That is, the Ten Cities

Psalm 78:40-55

New International Version

⁴⁰How often they rebelled^(A) against him in the wilderness^(B)
    and grieved him^(C) in the wasteland!
⁴¹Again and again they put God to the test;^(D)
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(E)
⁴²They did not remember^(F) his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^(G)
⁴³the day he displayed his signs^(H) in Egypt,
    his wonders^(I) in the region of Zoan.
⁴⁴He turned their river into blood;^(J)
    they could not drink from their streams.
⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies^(K) that devoured them,
    and frogs^(L) that devastated them.
⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(M)
    their produce to the locust.^(N)
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail^(O)
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
⁴⁸He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock^(P) to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(Q)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.^(R)
⁵⁰He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
⁵¹He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(S)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(T)
⁵²But he brought his people out like a flock;^(U)
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
⁵³He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed^(V) their enemies.^(W)
⁵⁴And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand^(X) had taken.
⁵⁵He drove out nations^(Y) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(Z)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.