Mark 5:11-22

¹¹There was a large drove of pigs close by, feeding on the hillside;

¹²and the spirits begged Jesus, “Send us into the pigs so that we can take possession of them.”

¹³Jesus gave them leave. They came out, and entered into the pigs; and the drove — about two thousand in number — rushed down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

¹⁴Then the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around; and the people went to see what had happened.

¹⁵When they came to Jesus, they found the possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind — the man who had had the ‘Legion’ in him — and they were awe-struck.

¹⁶Then those who had seen it related to them all that had happened to the possessed man, as well as about the pigs;

¹⁷so they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.

¹⁸As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.

¹⁹But Jesus refused. “Go back to your home, to your own people,” he said, “and tell them of all that the Lord has done for you, and how he took pity on you.”

²⁰So the man went, and began to proclaim in the district of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

²¹By the time Jesus had recrossed in the boat to the opposite shore, a great number of people had gathered to meet him, and were standing by the sea.

²²One of the leaders of the synagogue, whose name was Jairus, came and, as soon as he saw Jesus, threw himself at his feet and begged him repeatedly,