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The Healing Of Two Possessed Persons
29. He arrived at the other shore, in the region of the Gadarenes. There, two possessed persons ran up to him; they came out of the burial caves and were very dangerous, so that no one could walk on this street.
30. And behold, they cried out, saying, "What do you want of us, you son of Gabriel, the celestial son?
31. "Have you come to torment us before it is even time?"
32. Then the evil spirits within the possessed asked him, "Master, if you intend to drive us out, then let us go into the herd of swine grazing just over there.”
33. And he spoke, "So go there.”
34 . Then they went out into the swine, and behold, the whole herd rushed down to the water and drowned.
35. The swineherds fled and went into the town and told everything, including what had happened to the possessed.
36. And behold, the whole town came out and approached Jmmanuel.
37. And when they saw him, they asked him to leave their area.