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A Man with Evil Spirits

|Marcos 5:1| Jesus and his disciples crossed Lake Galilee and came to shore near the town of Gerasa. ²⁶

|Marcos 5:2| When he was getting out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit quickly ran to him

|Marcos 5:3| from the graveyard ²⁷ where he had been living. No one was able to tie the man up anymore, not even with a chain.

|Marcos 5:4| He had often been put in chains and leg irons, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one could control him.

|Marcos 5:5| Night and day he was in the graveyard or on the hills, yelling and cutting himself with stones.

|Marcos 5:6| When the man saw Jesus in the distance, he ran up to him and knelt down.

|Marcos 5:7| He shouted, “Jesus, Son of God in heaven, what do you want with me? Promise me in God's name that you won't torture me!”

|Marcos 5:8| The man said this because Jesus had already told the evil spirit to come out of him.

|Marcos 5:9| Jesus asked, “What is your name?” The man answered, “My name is Lots, because I have ‘lots’ of evil spirits.”

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|Marcos 5:10| He then begged Jesus not to send them away.