There lived a man among the tombs in Gerasenes whom no one could bind even with fetters and chains. He would wrench the chains apart, and the fetters he broke into pieces. It was a fearful sight to see him screaming and bruising himself with stones, all day and night. 

When the people in the community saw him, they wondered if anybody could do good to this man to set him free. He had a legion – six thousand unclean spirits living in him and playing havoc in his life. 

But when Jesus set this hopeless man free from all the evil spirits, the entire community, in Gerasenes wanted Jesus to leave their town. Jesus did not deliver the man in the way they expected. They were a pig-rearing community, and to exorcise the unclean spirits and present him in a sound state of mind, Jesus commanded all the spirits in this man to enter the pigs, which eventually rushed down into the sea and perished.  

Jesus did not care about the future livelihood of the entire community, or the death of all the pigs, but the restoration of one soul in torment to normalcy was his chief concern.  

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