5. Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.
6. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.
7. Then he cried out with a loud voice, “Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God – do not torment me!”
8. (For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)
9. Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
10. He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.
11. There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding.
12. And the demonic spirits begged him, “Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.”