Mark 5:11-22

¹¹Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside.

¹²So all the demons begged Him saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

¹³And forthwith Jesus gave them permission; and coming out the unclean spirits went into the pigs (there were about two thousand); but the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned by the sea.

¹⁴So those who were tending the pigs ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside. And they went out to see what it was that had happened.

¹⁵They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

¹⁶Those who had seen it related to them how it happened to the demonized man, and about the pigs.

¹⁷Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders.

¹⁸Well upon His getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized started begging Him that he might be with Him.

¹⁹But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your family and report to them how much the Lord has done for you; and He had mercy on you.”

²⁰So he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all were marveling.

²¹Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to Him; and He was by the sea.

²²And then, one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, comes, and upon finding Him he falls at His feet