And they crossed to the other side of the lake to the land of the Gerasenes. And he climbed out of the boat, and immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. The man lived among the tombs, and no one was able to bind him, not even with chains. He had been bound many times with chains and restraints, but the chains were pulled to pieces by him and the restraints broken, and no one was able to subdue him. He was always in the tombs and on the mountains, day and night crying out and cutting himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and knelt before him, and he cried out in a loud voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I command you by God, do not torment me!” For Jesus had said to him, “Depart from the man, you unclean spirit!” And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “My name is Legion, because we are many.” And he begged him repeatedly that he would not send them out of the region. There was in that place a large herd of swine feeding on the mountain, and they called to Jesus, “Send us into the swine so that we may be in them.” And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits departed and entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep hill to the lake, numbering about two thousand, and they were drowned in the lake.
And those who fed them fled and reported it in the town and in the fields, and they came to see what had taken place. And they came to Jesus, and they saw the man possessed, who had the legion, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
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Scripture taken from The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints, translated by Thomas A. Wayment. Copyright © 2019 by Brigham Young University. Used by permission. All rights reserved. This translation “is an invitation to engage again the meaning of the text for a new and more diverse English readership.”
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