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Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man and a Sick Woman,\" recounts a biblical story detailed in Matthew 8:28-34, 9:20-22, Mark 5:1-20, 5:24b-34, and Luke 8:26-39, 8:42b-48. It is part of the \"Open Bible Stories\" series, published by unfolding Word and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The illustrations are © Sweet Publishing, used under a CC BY SA 3.0 license. The narrative describes Jesus and his disciples crossing a lake to the region of the Gerasenes, where they encounter a man possessed by a demon. This man was exceptionally strong, so much so that he could break chains and lived among tombs, screaming day and night, naked, and self-harming with stones. Upon meeting Jesus, he fell at his feet. Jesus commanded the demon to leave the man, asking for its name. The demon identified itself as \"Legion,\" indicating its multiplicity, and pleaded not to be tortured. The story is presented with clear attribution of copyright and usage rights, encouraging adaptation and distribution under similar terms, while requiring preservation of original credits. This work is a derivative of \"Creative Commons Open Bible Stories\" and features \"Bible Images from Sweet Publishing.\"","32. Jesus Heals a DemonPossessed Man and a Sick Woman  \nA Bible story from Matthew 8:28‒34;  \n9:20-22; Mark 5:1-20; 5:24b-34; Luke  \n8:26-39; 8:42b-48  \nEnglish Spiritual  \n32. Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man and a Sick  \nWoman  \nDistant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community. Illustrations are © Sweet Publishing.  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2015, unfolding Word | Open Bible Stories  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis work is a derivative of \"Creative Commons Open Bible Stories\" attributed to [unfoldingWord.org](unfoldingWord.org) used under CC BY SA 4.0. All included images originate from “Bible Images from Sweet Publishing” attributed to Sweet Publishing used under CC BY SA 3.0.  \nOne day, Jesus and his disciples went ina boat across the lake to the region where the Gerasene people lived.  \nWhen they reached the other side of the lake, a demon-possessed man came running up to Jesus .  \nThis man was so strong that nobody could control him . People had even fastened his arms and legs with chains, but he kept breaking them .  \nThe man lived among the tombs in the area . This man would scream all day and all night. He did not wear clothes and cut himself repeatedly with stones .  \nWhen the man came to Jesus, he fell on his knees in front of him . Jesus said to the demon,“Come out of this man!”  \nThe man with the demon cried out in aloud voice,“What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Please do not torture me!” Then Jesus asked the demon,“What is your name?” He replied,“My name is Legion, because weare many.”(A “legion” was a group of several thousand soldiers in the Roman army.)","cbCaipscJ8gB45OJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipscJ8gB45OJ","pdf",391041,4,1,22,"English","en",105,"# Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man and a Sick Woman","[{\"question\":\"What biblical passages describe this event?\",\"answer\":\"This story is found in Matthew 8:28-34, 9:20-22, Mark 5:1-20, 5:24b-34, and Luke 8:26-39, 8:42b-48.\"},{\"question\":\"What was the condition of the demon-possessed man?\",\"answer\":\"The man was incredibly strong, breaking chains despite being bound. 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