Mark 5:1-11

International Standard Version

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man^(A)

5 They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.^{[a] 2} Just as Jesus^[b] stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him. ³ He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain. ⁴ He had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him. ⁵ He kept screaming night and day among the tombs and on the mountainsides, and kept cutting himself with stones.

⁶ When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him, ⁷ screaming in a loud voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of^[c] God never to torment me!”

⁸ Jesus^[d] had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” ⁹ Then Jesus^[e] asked him, “What’s your name?”

He told him, “My name is Legion,^[f] because there are many of us.” ¹⁰ He kept pleading with Jesus^[g] not to send them out of that region.

¹¹ Now a large herd of pigs was grazing on a hillside nearby.