7. With a shriek, he screamed, “Why are you interfering with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In the name of God, I beg you, don’t torture me!”
8. For Jesus had already said to the spirit, “Come out of the man, you evil spirit.”
9. Then Jesus demanded, “What is your name?”And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man.”
10. Then the evil spirits begged him again and again not to send them to some distant place.
11. There happened to be a large herd of pigs feeding on the hillside nearby.
12. “Send us into those pigs,” the spirits begged. “Let us enter them.”
13. So Jesus gave them permission. The evil spirits came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the entire herd of about 2,000 pigs plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.