Legion: Mark 5:1-20

The boat scraped ashore in Gentile territory—the region of the Gerasenes, where pigs rooted in the hills and Jews rarely ventured. Before Jesus could step fully onto the beach, a figure came hurtling from the tombs. He was a horror. Naked, filthy, his body a map of self-inflicted wounds. The townspeople had tried to restrain him—chains on his wrists, shackles on his ankles—but he had torn them apart like thread.…