Monday of the 4th week of Ordinary Time

32And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets: 33Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners: 35Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection. 36And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bands and prisons. 37They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted: 38Of whom the world was not worthy; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caved of the earth. 39And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise; 40God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.

1And they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens. 2And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit, 3Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. 4For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him. 5And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones. 6And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him. 7And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not. 8For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 9And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many. 10And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country. 11And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding. 12And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 13And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea. 14And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the fields. And they went out to see what was done: 15And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid. 16And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine. 17And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts. 18And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him. 19And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had mercy on thee. 20And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.