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  "id": "mark-5-8",
  "source": "Mark",
  "pericope": "The Gerasene Demoniac",
  "chapter": 5,
  "verse_start": 1,
  "verse_end": 20,
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    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes."
    },
    {
      "v": 2,
      "text": "When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs."
    },
    {
      "v": 3,
      "text": "He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,"
    },
    {
      "v": 4,
      "text": "because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him."
    },
    {
      "v": 5,
      "text": "Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones."
    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”"
    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "For he said to him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "“Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "He asked him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "“What is your name?”",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”"
    },
    {
      "v": 10,
      "text": "He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country."
    },
    {
      "v": 11,
      "text": "Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding."
    },
    {
      "v": 12,
      "text": "All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”"
    },
    {
      "v": 13,
      "break": "p"
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      "v": 13,
      "text": "At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea."
    },
    {
      "v": 14,
      "text": "Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city and in the country."
    },
    {
      "v": 14,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 14,
      "text": "The people came to see what it was that had happened."
    },
    {
      "v": 15,
      "text": "They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid."
    },
    {
      "v": 16,
      "text": "Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs."
    },
    {
      "v": 17,
      "text": "They began to beg him to depart from their region."
    },
    {
      "v": 18,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 18,
      "text": "As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him."
    },
    {
      "v": 19,
      "text": "He didn’t allow him, but said to him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 19,
      "text": "“Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.”",
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    },
    {
      "v": 20,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 20,
      "text": "He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled."
    }
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    {
      "v": 1,
      "text": "And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes."
    },
    {
      "v": 2,
      "text": "And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,"
    },
    {
      "v": 3,
      "text": "Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:"
    },
    {
      "v": 4,
      "text": "Because 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."
    },
    {
      "v": 5,
      "text": "And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones."
    },
    {
      "v": 6,
      "text": "But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 7,
      "text": "And 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."
    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "For he said unto him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 8,
      "text": "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "And he asked him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "What is thy name?",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 9,
      "text": "And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many."
    },
    {
      "v": 10,
      "text": "And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country."
    },
    {
      "v": 11,
      "text": "Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding."
    },
    {
      "v": 12,
      "text": "And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them."
    },
    {
      "v": 13,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 13,
      "text": "And 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."
    },
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      "v": 14,
      "break": "p"
    },
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      "v": 14,
      "text": "And 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."
    },
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      "v": 15,
      "text": "And 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."
    },
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      "v": 16,
      "text": "And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine."
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    {
      "v": 17,
      "text": "And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts."
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      "v": 18,
      "break": "p"
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    {
      "v": 18,
      "text": "And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him."
    },
    {
      "v": 19,
      "text": "Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him,"
    },
    {
      "v": 19,
      "text": "Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.",
      "wj": true
    },
    {
      "v": 20,
      "break": "p"
    },
    {
      "v": 20,
      "text": "And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel."
    }
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  "aland_number": 137,
  "epoch": 2,
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  "reference": "Mark 5:1–20",
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