Mark 5:14-20

International Standard Version

¹⁴ Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened^[a] in the city and countryside. So the people^[b] went to see what had happened. ¹⁵ When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened. ¹⁶ The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs. ¹⁷ So they began to beg Jesus^[c] to leave their territory.

¹⁸ As Jesus^[d] was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him. ¹⁹ But Jesus^[e] wouldn’t let him. Instead, he told him, “Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you.” ²⁰ So the man^[f] left and began proclaiming in the Decapolis^[g] how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was utterly amazed.