28Catching sight of Jesus, he shrieked out and threw himself down before him, and in a loud voice exclaimed, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torment me.”
29For Jesus was commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions it had seized him, and, even when secured with chains and fetters, and watched, he would break through anything that bound him, and be driven by the demon into the Wilds.
30“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he answered (for many demons had taken possession of him);
31and the demons begged Jesus not to order them away into the bottomless pit.
32There was a drove of many pigs close by feeding on the hill-side; and the demons begged Jesus to give them leave to enter into them. Jesus gave them leave.
33They came out from the man and took possession of the pigs; and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned.
34When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around.
35The people went out to see what had happened, and, when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at Jesus' feet; and they were awe-struck.
36Those who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been delivered.
37Then all the people in the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were terrified. Jesus got into a boat and returned.
Luke 8
Luke 8:28-37