1. Jesus and his disciples came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes.
2. As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit came out of the tombs.
3. This man lived among the tombs, and no one was ever strong enough to restrain him, even with a chain.
4. He had been secured many times with leg irons and chains, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one was tough enough to control him.
5. Night and day in the tombs and the hills, he would howl and cut himself with stones.
6. When he saw Jesus from far away, he ran and knelt before him,