Mark 5:8-14

⁸For Jesus had already told the evil spirit to leave the man.

⁹Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion, because we are many!” he replied.

¹⁰He also repeatedly pleaded with Jesus not to send them a long way away.

¹¹A large herd of pigs was feeding on the hillside nearby.

¹²The evil spirits pleaded with him, “Send us into the pigs so we can enter them.”

¹³Jesus allowed them to do this. The evil spirits left the man and went into the pigs. The whole herd, about two thousand, rushed down the steep cliff into the sea and drowned.

¹⁴The pig-keepers ran away, and spread the news all over town and in the countryside. People came out to see what had happened.