10. He begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of that area.
11. A large herd of pigs was feeding on a hill near there.
12. The demons begged Jesus, “Send us into the pigs; let us go into them.”
13. So Jesus allowed them to do this. The evil spirits left the man and went into the pigs. Then the herd of pigs—about two thousand of them—rushed down the hill into the lake and were drowned.
14. The herdsmen ran away and went to the town and to the countryside, telling everyone about this. So people went out to see what had happened.
15. They came to Jesus and saw the man who used to have the many evil spirits, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind. And they were frightened.
16. The people who saw this told the others what had happened to the man who had the demons living in him, and they told about the pigs.