Luke 8:27-33 ▼

27 When Jesus stepped out on the shore, a man from the city met him. This man was controlled by demons and had not worn clothes for a long time. He did not live in a house but in the tombs.

28 When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and cried out in a loud voice, |What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!|

29 because Jesus was in the process of ordering the unclean spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions the unclean spirit had seized the man, and though he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, he would break the chains and be driven by the demon into deserted places.

30 Jesus asked the man, |What's your name?| He answered, |Legion,| because many demons had gone into him.

31 Then the demons began begging Jesus not to order them to go into the bottomless pit.

32 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into those pigs, and he consented to that.

33 Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned.