disciples, and said unto them, Let us pass over to the
farther side of the lake. And they set fail. (23)And while they were on
the passage, he went to sleep: and a hurricane of wind rushed down on
the lake; and they were filled with water, and imminent danger.
(24)Then they came and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we are
perishing. Then arising, he issued his command to the wind, and the
billows of water, and they subsided, and there was a calm. (25)And he
said to them, Where is your faith? And they feared and were astonished,
saying one to another, Well! what a man is this! that he commands even
the winds and the sea, and they obey him.
(26)And they sailed over unto the region of the Gadarenes, which is
opposite Galilee. (27)And as he landed, there met him a certain man
from the city, who had devils for a long while, and kept no clothes on
him, and never abode in a house, but in the tombs. (28)But when he saw
Jesus, roaring out, he fell down before him, and said with a loud
voice, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God Most High? I
pray thee, torment me not. (29)For he had commanded the unclean spirit
to come out of the man; for many times it had seized on him; and though
under a guard, and bound with chains and fetters; yet bursting the
bonds, he was driven by the devil into the desert places. (30)Then
Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? and he said, Legion: for
many devils were entered into him. (31)And he besought him that he
would not order them to go into the abyss. (32)Now a herd of many swine
was there feeding on the mountain; and they besought him that he would
permit them to enter into them. And he permitted them. (33)Then the
devils going out of the man, entered into the swine; and the herd
rushed down a precipice into the lake, and was suffocated. (34)But when
those who fed them saw what was done they fled, and went and told it in
the city and in the country places. (35)And they came out to see what
had happened; and they came to Jesus, and found the man sitting, from
whom the devils were gone out, clothed, and in his sound mind, at the
feet of Jesus; and they were afraid. (36)Then they also who had seen
how the demoniac was recovered, told them. (37)And the whole multitude
of the country around the Gadarenes, entreated him to depart from them;
for they were seized with great terror: and he embarked on the vessel,
and returned. (38)And the man out of whom the devils had gone, besought
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