Now there was there on the mountain a large herd of pigs, grazing.
And they begged him: ‘Send us into the pigs, so that we might enter them.’
And he allowed them, and the unclean spirits went out and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the bank into the sea, about two thousand and they were drowned in the sea.
And the herdsmen fled and proclaimed the news in the town and in the countryside.
And they came to see what it was that happened.
And they came to Jesus
and they saw the demon-possessed man sitting, clothed and in his right mind,
the one who had had ‘Legion’ and they were fearful.
And those who had seen what had happened described it, and about the pigs.
And they began to beg him to leave their district.
And getting into the boat, the ‘demon-possessed man’ begged to be with him.
And he did not let him, but said to him ‘Go into your house, and to your family and tell them what the Lord has done for you and that he had mercy on you.’
And he went away and he began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him and all were amazed.
Eternal Light, shine into our hearts;
Eternal Goodness, deliver us from evil;
Eternal Power, be our support;
Eternal Wisdom, scatter the darkness of our ignorance:
That we may seek your face
with all our heart and mind and soul and strength. Amen.
Alcuin