Becker Bible StudiesKing James Bible (AV)Mark 5:1-43The Gadarene demoniac healed
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“1 ¶ And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country
of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately
there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had
[his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with
chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains,
and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken
in pieces: neither could any [man] tame him. 5 And always, night and
day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting
himself with stones. 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and
worshipped him, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to
do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by
God, that thou torment me not. 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the
man, [thou] unclean spirit. 9 And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And
he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many. 10 And he
besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
feeding. 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the
swine, that we may enter into them. 13 And forthwith Jesus gave them
leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and
the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about
two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. 14 And they that fed the
swine fled, and told [it] in the city, and in the country. And they went
out to see what it was that was done. 15 And they come to Jesus, and see
him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and
clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. 16 And they that
saw [it] told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the
devil, and [also] concerning the swine. 17 And they began to pray him to
depart out of their coasts. 18 And when he was come into the ship, he
that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with
him. 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to
thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee,
and hath had compassion on thee. 20 And he departed, and began to
publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all
[men] did marvel.” |
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