Hey sis, we have two accounts of this story, Luke 8 and Mark 5
Lukes:
And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in [any] house, but in the tombs.
When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
In Lukes account I wonder why the man thought Jesus would torment him?
Marks:
But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him
And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
Same question, why did he think Jesus would torment him?
Possible answer from Mark:
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any [man] tame him.
compare Luke's verse of this:
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
Okay, so everything that "Legion" asked Jesus not to do had already been something done to him <the naked man himself that believed and started to precieve he was a "we" called legion because a legion of people had been trying to tame him..He was not in his right mind from the influences and the acts others were trying to use and do against him to tame him.. (Mark's) And he asked him, What [is] thy name?
And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many. Jesus was still talking to the man, not something animated outside the man.
The abyss or deep Mark renders as this:
And he besought him much that he would not send them away
out of the country.
This goes really deep! Who was the legion that was trying to tame the man? (the ones that were afraid to see him in his right mind?) so what exactly were they trying to tame his mind into? not a right one to be afraid when they saw him in his right mind..?
So how come the man ended up out of his right mind away? It is obvious that swine were not considered clean aniamls so why were the people raising and herding them? Maybe that these people were hiding what they were doing and the man was screaming out their offensive and breaking of the law..telling on them..?
But if the man had been right in his observation and knowledge why did he still end up not in his right mind? He should have been justified with their laws and when one was being broke. ??
Back to the accounts of the story:
Mark: And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying,
and cutting himself with stones.So, the man was treating himself no better than the others were treating him!
the swine were suppose to be the only unclean things, but yet the man ended up with the unclean in him which the unclean asked to be placed back into what was already deemed unclean, the swine...?
Geez!
so let me re-run all this over again with logical side of brain, what would cause people to get sick of someone that points out their sins to them all the time, to where they abuse that person and run them off? I hate nosy azz's that see only my sins and not their own!
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make it clean or unclean, just make up your mind! My answer and mind makes it both at the same time, clean and unclean mixed together, just like life and death, we are doing both at the same time...diving into the deep is crazy but so worth it when you resurface and see both sides of the pool!
so in essense, Lukes rendering of this verse spoke volumes: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
The people where devils and yet "the" single devil drove the man to run away into the wilderness...HIM... and Them, both, a legion, even not being in his right mind his mind spoke right..
By the end of the story in both accounts the swine became unclean for all of them...again! Po' little piggyz
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