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The Book of Mark, Chapter 5, Verse 1

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And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
King James Version
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
American Standard Version
And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.
New English Translation
For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
World English Bible
They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
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And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
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Who had [his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
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Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any [man] tame him.
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And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
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And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
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For he said unto him, ‹Come out of the man,› [thou] ‹unclean spirit.›
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And he asked him, ‹What› [is] ‹thy name?› And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
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And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
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Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.