Mark 5:11-22

¹¹Now a great herd of pigs was there feeding on the hill,

¹²and they begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs; let us enter into them.”

¹³So he allowed them; the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs, and they rushed down the steep hill into the sea, and about two thousand pigs drowned in the sea.

¹⁴Then those who were feeding the pigs ran away and reported what had happened in the city and in the countryside, and so people went out to see what had happened.

¹⁵Then they came to Jesus and they saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

¹⁶Those who had seen what happened to the demon-possessed man told them about it in detail, and they also them told about the pigs.

¹⁷Then they started to beg him to leave their region.

¹⁸When he was getting into the boat, the demon-possessed man begged him that he might be with him.

¹⁹But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go to your house and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, and how he has shown you mercy.”

²⁰So he went away and began to proclaim the great things that Jesus had done for him in the Decapolis, and everyone was amazed.

²¹Now when Jesus had crossed over again to the other side, in the boat, a great crowd gathered around him, as he was beside the sea.

²²Then one of the leaders of the synagogue, named Jairus, came, and when he saw him, fell at his feet.