Pastor Buddy Wimberly "Legion" Mark 5:1-20
Mar 5:1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the
Mar 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of
the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Mar 5:3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no,
Mar 5:4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the
chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither
Mar 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs,
crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Mar 5:6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
Mar 5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Mar 5:8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
Mar 5:9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name
is Legion: for we are many.
Mar 5:10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the
Mar 5:11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
Mar 5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we
Mar 5:13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out,
and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the
sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
Mar 5:14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the
country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil,
and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were
Mar 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed
with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
Mar 5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
Mar 5:18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with
the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
Mar 5:19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy
friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had
Mar 5:20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things
Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.