Luke 8:26-39
They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn’t live in a house, but in the tombs.When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said,“ What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bonds apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.Jesus asked him,“ What is your name?” He said,“ Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.The demons came out of the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,“ Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.
Matthew 8:28-34
When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.Behold, they cried out, saying,“ What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.The demons begged him, saying,“ If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”He said to them,“ Go!” They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
