Mark 5:1-8 ▼

1 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes,

2 and He having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

3 who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was anyone able to bind him,

4 because that many times he had been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been pulled in pieces by him, and the shackles broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

5 and always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones.

6 And having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and prostrated to Him,

7 and having called with a loud voice, he said, “What [regards] me and You, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure You by God, may You not afflict me!”

8 For He said to him, “Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the man!”