Mark 5:1-20

Revised Geneva Translation

5 And they came over to the other side of the sea into the country of the Gadarenes.

² And when He had come out of the ship, a man who had an unclean spirit met him immediately from out of the graves.

³ He dwelt among the graves. And no one could bind him, not even with chains.

⁴ Because, when he was often bound with shackles and chains, he broke the chains apart and destroyed the shackles. Nor could anyone tame him.

⁵ And always, both night and day, he cried in the mountains, and in the graves, and struck himself with stones.

⁶ And when he saw Jesus at a distance, he ran and worshipped Him,

⁷ and cried with a loud voice, and said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus the Son of the Most High God!? Swear to me by God that You will not torment me!”

⁸ (For He said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.”)

⁹ And He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion. For we are many.”

¹⁰ And he urged Jesus not to send them away out of the country.

¹¹ Now there was there in the mountains a great heard of swine, feeding.

¹² And all the demons begged Him, saying, “Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.”

¹³ And immediately, Jesus gave them leave. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine. And the herd ran headlong from the high bank into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked up in the sea.

¹⁴ And the swineherds fled, and told of it in the city, and in the country. And they came out to see what had been done.

¹⁵ And they came to Jesus. And they saw him who had been possessed with the demon and had the legion, sit, both clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.

¹⁶ And those who saw it told them what had been done to him who had been possessed with the demon and concerning the swine.

¹⁷ Then they began to beg Jesus to depart from their coasts.

¹⁸ And when He had come into the ship, he who had been possessed with the demon begged him to let him join them.

¹⁹ But Jesus would not allow it, and said to him, “Go home to your friends and show them what great things the Lord has done for you; and how He has had compassion on you.”

²⁰ So he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him. And all marveled.