Mark 5:1-20

Tree of Life Version

Power Over Demons

5 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. ² As soon as Yeshua got out of the boat, a man from the graveyard^[a] with an unclean spirit met Him. ³ He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him anymore, even with a chain. ⁴ For 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. ⁵ And through it all, night and day, at the graveyard and in the mountains, he kept screaming and gashing himself with stones.

⁶ When he saw Yeshua from a distance, he ran and bowed down before Him. ⁷ Crying 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!”

⁸ For Yeshua had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” ⁹ Then Yeshua began questioning him, “What is your name?”

And he answered, “My name is Legion,^[b] for we are many.” ¹⁰ He kept begging Him not to send them out of the country. ¹¹ Now a large herd of pigs was feeding on the hillside nearby. ¹² The unclean spirits urged Him, saying, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.” ¹³ So 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.

¹⁴ The herdsmen ran away and told the town and countryside, and they came to see what had happened. ¹⁵ Now 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.

¹⁶ Those who had seen it described in detail what had happened to the man plagued by a demon, and they also told about the pigs. ¹⁷ And they began to beg Yeshua to leave their country. ¹⁸ As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been infested with demons kept begging to remain with Him. ¹⁹ Yeshua did not let him, but He told him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much Adonai has done for you, how He showed you mercy.”

²⁰ So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis^[c] how much Yeshua had done for him. And all were amazed.