1. Jesus and his disciples crossed Lake Galilee and came to shore near the town of Gerasa.
2. When he was getting out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit quickly ran to him
3. from the graveyard where he had been living. No one was able to tie the man up any more, not even with a chain.
4. He had often been put in chains and leg irons, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one could control him.
5. Night and day he was in the graveyard or on the hills, yelling and cutting himself with stones.