Mark 5:1-8 ▼

1 They came to the other side of the sea, into the region of the Gerasenes.

2 When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him.

3 He lived among the tombs; and no one was able to bind him anymore, not even with a chain,

4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces; and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and cutting himself with stones.

6 Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and bowed down before Him;

7 and shouting with a loud voice, he said, “What business do You have with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!”

8 For He had already been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”