Bible Verses About Gadarenes

When Yeshua arrived at the other side of the lake, in the Gadarenes' territory, there came out of the burial caves two men controlled by demons, so violent that no one dared travel on that road.

They screamed, "What do you want with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?"

Now some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding.

The demons begged him, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."

"All right, go!" he told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, whereupon the entire herd rushed down the hillside into the lake and drowned.

The swineherds fled, went off to the town and told the whole story, including what had happened to the demonized men.

At this, the whole town came out to meet Yeshua. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their district.

Yeshua and his talmidim arrived at the other side of the lake, in the Gerasenes' territory.

As soon as he disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the burial caves to meet him.

He lived in the burial caves; and no one could keep him tied up, not even with a chain.

He had often been chained hand and foot, but he would snap the chains and break the irons off his feet, and no one was strong enough to control him.

Night and day he wandered among the graves and through the hills, howling and gashing himself with stones.

Seeing Yeshua from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him

and screamed at the top of his voice, "What do you want with me, Yeshua, Son of God Ha`Elyon? I implore you in God's name! Don't torture me!"

For Yeshua had already begun saying to him, "Unclean spirit, come out of this man!"

Yeshua asked him, "What's your name?" "My name is Legion," he answered, "there are so many of us";

and he kept begging Yeshua not to send them out of that region.

Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding near the hill,

and the unclean spirits begged him, "Send us to the pigs, so we can go into them."

Yeshua gave them permission. They came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering around two thousand, rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.

The swineherds fled and told it in the town and in the surrounding country, and the people went to see what had happened.

They came to Yeshua and saw the man who had had the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were frightened.

Those who had seen it told what had happened to the man con trolled by demons and to the pigs;

and the people began begging Yeshua to leave their district.

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized begged him to be allowed to go with him.