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--