008:027 Here, on landing, He was met by one of the townsmen who was possessed by demons--for a long time he had not put on any garment, nor did he live in a house, but in the tombs. 008:028 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of God Most High? Do not torture me, I beseech you." 008:029 For already He had been commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. For many a time it had seized and held him, and they had repeatedly put him in chains and fetters and kept guard over him, but he used to break the chains to pieces, and, impelled by the demon, to escape into the Desert. 008:030 "What is your name?" Jesus asked him. "Legion," he replied-- because a great number of demons had entered into him; 008:031 and they besought Him not to command them to be gone into the Bottomless Pit. 008:032 Now there was a great herd of swine there feeding on the hill-side; and the demons begged Him to give them leave to go into them, and He gave them leave. 008:033 The demons came out of the man and left him, and entered into the swine; and the herd rushed violently over the cliff into the Lake and were drowned. 008:034 The swineherds, seeing what had happened, fled and reported it both in town and country; 008:035 whereupon the people came out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and they found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they were terrified. 008:036 And those who had seen it told them how the demoniac was cured. 008:037 Then the whole population of the Gerasenes and of the adjacent districts begged Him to depart from them; for their terror was great. So He went on board and returned. 008:038 But the man from whom the demons had gone out earnestly asked permission to go with Him; but He sent him away. 008:039 "Return home," He said, "and tell there all that God has done for you." So he went and published through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him. 008:040 Now when Jesus was returning, the people gave Him a warm welcome; for they had all been looking out for Him. 008:041 Just then there came a man named Jair, a Warden of the Synagogue, who threw himself at the feet of Jesus, and entreated Him to come to his house; 008:042 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. And as He went, the dense throng crowded on Him. 008:043 And a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with haemorrhage-- and had spent on doctors all she had, but none of them had been able to cure her-- 008:044 came close behind Him and touched the tassel of His robe; and instantly her flow of blood stopped.