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Jesus was also shunned in His day, even when he saved a man from demons.
Chapter 5
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- 1 They came to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes.
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- When he got out of the boat, at once a man 2 from the tombs who had an unclean spirit met him.
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- The man had been dwelling among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, even with a chain.
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- In fact, he had frequently been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been pulled apart by him and the shackles smashed, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
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- Night and day among the tombs and on the hillsides he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.
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- Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and prostrated himself before him,
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- crying out in a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, 3 Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me!"
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- (He had been saying to him, "Unclean spirit, come out of the man!")
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- 4 He asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "Legion is my name. There are many of us."
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- And he pleaded earnestly with him not to drive them away from that territory.
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- Now a large herd of swine 5 was feeding there on the hillside.
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- And they pleaded with him, "Send us into the swine. Let us enter them."
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- And he let them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine. The herd of about two thousand rushed down a steep bank into the sea, where they were drowned.
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- The swineherds ran away and reported the incident in the town and throughout the countryside. And people came out to see what had happened.
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- As they approached Jesus, they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind. And they were seized with fear.
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- Those who witnessed the incident explained to them what had happened to the possessed man and to the swine.
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- Then they began to beg him to leave their district.
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