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Mattityahu 8:18-34

Mattityahu 8:18-34 TOJB2011

And when he saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side. A sofer (scribe, torah teacher) approached Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and said, Rebbe, I will follow you wherever you go. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Foxes have holes and the OPH HASHOMAYIM (birds of heaven) have nests, but the Bar Enosh does not have a place where he may lay his head. And another of Moshiachʼs talmidim said to him, Adoneinu, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to him, Follow me, and permit the mesim (spiritually dead ones without hitkhadshut, spiritually unregenerate ones) to bury their own mesim (deceased ones, niftarim). And when he embarked into the sirah, Moshiachʼs talmidim followed him. And hinei! a great storm came up on the lake, so that the sirah (boat) was about to be covered by the waves. But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was sleeping. And Moshiachʼs talmidim approached and woke him, saying, Adoneinu, hoshieinu! We are perishing! And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Why are you fearful, you ones of little emunah? Then, arising, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the winds and the sea. And there was a great calm. And the men were astonished, saying, What sort of man is this!? That even the winds and the sea obey him! And when Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came to the other side of the lake, in the land of the people of Gadara, he was met by two men possessed by shedim (demons); these men were coming out of the kevarim (tombs) of the burial caves and were so dangerous no one could pass by on that road. And they screamed, saying, Mah lanu valach, Ben HaElohim? (What to us and to you, Ben HaElohim?) Have you come here to torture us before the time? Now there was feeding far away from them a large herd of chazirim (swine). And the shedim begged him, saying, If you cast us out, send us into the herd of chazirim. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Go away! So the shedim, coming out, went away into the chazirim. And, hinei, all the herd of chazirim rushed down the bank into the lake, and they perished in the water. And the herdsmen of the chazirim fled, and, having gone away into the town, they told the whole story of what had happened to the men possessed by shedim. And hinei! The whole town came out to meet Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. And seeing him, they begged him to depart from their area.

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