Mark 5:1-15 Jesus Casts out a Legion of Spirits

Jesus casting out Legion

¹And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. ²And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, ³Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: ⁴Because 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 could any man tame him. ⁵And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. ⁶But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, ⁷And 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. ⁸For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. ⁹And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. ¹⁰And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. ¹¹Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. ¹²And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. ¹³And 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. ¹⁴And 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. ¹⁵And 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 afraid. -Mark 5:1-15 Bible, King James Version

The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling

CHAPTER 118.

¹The morning came; the Chris­tines landed in the country of the Geracenes. ²They went to Gadara, chief city of the Peracans, and here for certain days they tarried and they taught. ³Now, legends hold that Ga­dara is sacred to the dead, and all the hills about are known as holy ground. ⁴These are the burial grounds of all the regions round about; the hills are full of tombs; and many dead from Galilee are here en­tombed. ⁵Now, spirits of the lately dead that cannot rise to higher planes, remain about the tombs that hold the flesh and bones of what was once their mortal homes. ⁶They sometimes take posses­sion of the living, whom they tor­ture in a hundred ways. ⁷And all through Gadara were men obsessed, and there was no one strong enough to bring relief. ⁸That they might meet these hidden foes and learn the way to dispossess the evil ones the master took the foreign masters and the twelve into the tombs. ⁹And as they neared the gates they met a man obsessed. A legion of the unclean ones were in this man, and they had made him strong; ¹⁰And none could bind him down, no, not with chains; for he could break the stoutest chains, and go his way. ¹¹Now, unclean spirits cannot live in light; they revel in the dark. ¹²When Jesus came he brought the light of life, and all the evil spir­its were disturbed. ¹³The leader of the legion in the man called out, Thou Jesus, thou Immanuel, we beg that thou wilt not consign it to the depths. Torment us not before our time. ¹⁴And Jesus said, What is your number and your name? ¹⁵The evil spirit said, Our name is legion, and our number is the number of the beast. ¹⁶And Jesus spoke; and with a voice that shook the very hills, he said, Come forth; possess this man no more. ¹⁷Now, all the hills were filled with unclean animals that fed, and carried forth and spread the plague among the people of the land. ¹⁸And when the evil spirits begged that they might not be driven forth without a home, the master said, ¹⁹Go forth and take possession of the unclean quadrupeds [or four-footed animals.] ²⁰And they, and all the evil spirits of the tombs went forth and took possession of the breeders of the plague, ²¹Which, wild with rage, ran down the steeps into the sea, and all were drowned. ²²And all the land was freed of the contagion, and the unclean spirits came no more.