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I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to
the LORD.
7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my
voice! 5:9 “What is your name?” Most likely, Jesus
Have mercy also upon me, asked this in view of the demon’s appeal not to
and answer me. be tormented. However, He did not need to
8 When You said, “Seek My face,” know the demon’s name in order to expel him.
My heart said to You, “Your face, Rather, Jesus posed the question to bring the
reality and complexity of this case into the
LORD, I will seek.”
9 Do not hide Your face from me; open.Legion. A Latin term,by then common to
Jews and Greeks,that defined a Roman military
Do not turn Your servant away in unit of 6,000 infantrymen.Such a name denotes
anger; that the man was controlled by an extremely
You have been my help; large number of militant evil spirits, a truth reit-
Do not leave me nor erated by the expression “for we are many.”
forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
10 When my father and my mother
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forsake me, worshiped Him. And he cried out with a loud
Then the LORD will take care voice and said, “What have I to do with You,
of me. Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore
You by God that You do not torment me.”
Proverbs 10:10–12 8 For He said to him, “Come out of the man,
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10 He who winks with the eye causes unclean spirit!” Then He asked him, “What is
trouble, your name?”
But a prating fool will fall. And he answered, saying, “My name is
Legion; for we are many.” Also he begged
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11 The mouth of the righteous Him earnestly that He would not send them
is a well of life, out of the country.
But violence covers the mouth of the 11 Now a large herd of swine was feeding
wicked. 12
there near the mountains. So all the demons
12 Hatred stirs up strife, begged Him, saying, “Send us to the swine,
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But love covers all sins. that we may enter them.” And at once Jesus
gave them permission. Then the unclean spir-
Mark 5:1–20
its went out and entered the swine (there were
Then they came to the other side of the about two thousand); and the herd ran vio-
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5 sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. And lently down the steep place into the sea, and
when He had come out of the boat, immedi- drowned in the sea.
ately there met Him out of the tombs a man 14 So those who fed the swine fled, and they
with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling told it in the city and in the country. And they
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among the tombs; and no one could bind him, went out to see what it was that had happened.
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not even with chains, because he had often 15 Then they came to Jesus, and saw the one
been bound with shackles and chains. And the who had been demon-possessed and had the
chains had been pulled apart by him, and the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right
shackles broken in pieces; neither could any- mind. And they were afraid. And those who
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one tame him. And always, night and day, he saw it told them how it happened to him who
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was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying had been demon-possessed, and about the
out and cutting himself with stones. swine. Then they began to plead with Him to
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6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and depart from their region.
18 And when He got into the boat, he who
had been demon-possessed begged Him that
he might be with Him. However, Jesus did
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5:5 crying out and cutting himself with not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to
stones. “Crying out” describes a continual your friends, and tell them what great things
unearthly scream uttered with intense emo- the Lord has done for you, and how He has
tion. The “stones” likely were rocks made of had compassion on you.” And he departed
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flint with sharp, jagged edges.
and began to proclaim in Decapolis all that Je-
sus had done for him; and all marveled.
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