Bíblia (NT-Mark 5:1-20)1 They reached the territory of the Gerasenes on the other side of the lake,
2 and when he disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit at once came out from the tombs towards him.
3 The man lived among the tombs and no one could secure him any more, even with a cord,
4 because he had often been secured with fetters and cords but had snapped the cords and rubbed away the fetters, and no one had the strength to control him.
5 All night and all day, among the tombs and in the mountains, he was howling and gashing himself with stones.
6 Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell at his feet
7 and cried out at the top of his voice, ‘What do you want with me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God’s name do not torture me!’
8 For Jesus had been saying to him, ‘Come out of the man, unclean spirit.’
9 Then he asked, ‘What is your name?’ He answered, ‘My name is Legion, for there are many of us.’
10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the district.
11 Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding,
12 and the unclean spirits begged him, ‘Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.’
13 So he gave them leave, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd charged down the cliff into the lake, about two thousand of them, and they were drowned in the lake.
14 Their herdsmen ran off and told their story in the town and in the countryside; and the people came to see what had happened.
15 They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac – the man who had had the legion in him – sitting there clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.
16 And those who had witnessed it reported what had happened to the demoniac and about the pigs.
17 Then they began to implore Jesus to leave their neighbourhood.
18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to stay with him.
19 Jesus refused but said to him, ‘Go home to your people and tell them all that the Lord in his mercy has done for you.’
20 So the man went off and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.