A large herd of pigs. Mark says 2,000. They were being kept in violation of the Religious Law, since pigs were "unclean." Mark records the one demoniac as saying his name is "Mob" because there are so many of them. Perhaps Jesus allowed them to go into the pigs to show the fact or reality of the demons. This implies there were 2,000 evil spirits possessing this one man.

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Old Testament