As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.

The woman was a Greek, of Syrophoenician origin. She asked him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him and came and fell at his feet.

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.