Mark 5
5
Jesus Heals a Man Controlled by Demons
1They went across the Sea of Galilee to the area of the Gerasenes. 2When Jesus got out of the boat, a man controlled by an evil spirit came out of the tombs to meet him. 3He lived in the tombs, and no one could keep him tied up anymore, not even with a chain. 4His hands and feet had often been chained, but he tore the chains apart and broke the iron cuffs off his ankles. No one was strong enough to control him. 5Night and day, among the tombs and in the hills, he screamed and cut himself with stones.
6When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran to him and fell on his knees in front of him. 7He shouted at the top of his voice, “Jesus, Son of the Most High God, what do you want with me? Swear by God that you won’t hurt me!” 8This was because Jesus had already said, “Come out of this man, you evil spirit!”
9Then Jesus asked the demon, “What is your name?”
“My name is Legion,” he answered, “because there are many of us.” 10He begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.
11A large herd of pigs was feeding on a hillside nearby. 12The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs. Let us go into them.” 13Jesus permitted that, and the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs. There were about 2,000 pigs in the herd. They all rushed down the steep bank, ran into the lake, and drowned.
14Those who were tending the pigs ran off and told the people in the town and countryside what had happened. The people went out to see for themselves. 15When they got to Jesus, they found the man who’d been controlled by many demons sitting there quietly. He was now dressed and thinking clearly. All this made the people afraid. 16Those who’d been there told them what had happened to the man and to the pigs. 17The people asked Jesus to leave their region.
18As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who’d been controlled by the demons begged to go with him, 19but Jesus wouldn’t let him. Instead, he said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how kind he has been to you.” 20So the man went to the area known as the Ten Cities and began telling how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Suffering Woman
21Jesus went by boat back across the Sea of Galilee. When he landed on the other side, a large crowd gathered around him. 22A man named Jairus, who was a synagogue leader, came with the crowd. When he saw Jesus, he bowed down to the ground in front of him 23and begged him, “My little daughter is dying. Please come and place your hands on her to heal her, and then she’ll live.” 24So Jesus went with him.
A large group of people came along with them, and they were crowding all around Jesus. 25Among them was a woman who had a sickness that made her bleed. She’d had it for 12 years 26and she’d suffered a great deal, even though she’d gone to many doctors. Though she’d spent all the money she had, she didn’t get better. She kept getting worse! 27But then she heard about Jesus, 28and she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I’ll be healed.” So she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes. 29Right away her bleeding stopped. She felt in her body that she was free from her suffering.
30Jesus knew right away that some power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31“You can see all these people crowding around you,” his disciples responded. “So why are you asking, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32But Jesus kept looking around to see who had touched him. 33Then the woman came and fell at his feet. She knew what had happened to her, and she was shaking with fear, but she told him the whole truth. 34He said to her, “My daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
35While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. “Your daughter is dead,” they told him. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36Jesus heard what they were saying. He told Jairus, “Don’t be afraid. Just believe.”
37Jesus only let Peter, James, and John, the brother of James, come with him. 38As they approached the home of the synagogue leader, they could hear the noise of people crying and sobbing loudly. 39Jesus went inside and asked them, “Why are you all crying so loudly? The child isn’t dead. She’s only sleeping.” 40But they laughed at him.
He made them all go outside, and he brought only the child’s father and mother and his disciples in to where the child was. 41He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!” (That means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”) 42Right away the girl, who was 12 years old, stood up and began to walk around. They were totally amazed at this. 43Jesus gave them strict orders not to let anyone know what had happened, and he told them to give her something to eat.
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St Mark 5
5
1AND they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens.
2And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,
3Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.
4For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.
5And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.
6And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him.
7And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.
8For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.
10And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.
11And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.
12And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea.
14And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the fields. And they went out to see what was done:
15And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.
16And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine.
17And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts.
18And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him.
19And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had mercy on thee.
20And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.
21And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a great multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea.
22And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus: and seeing him, falleth down at his feet.
23And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.
24And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him.
25And a woman who was under an issue of blood twelve years,
26And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse,
27When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment.
28For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole.
29And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the evil.
30And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had proceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my garments?
31And his disciples said to him: Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou who hath touched me?
32And he looked about to see her who had done this.
33But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
34And he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be thou whole of thy disease.
35While he was yet speaking, some come from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying: Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble the master any further?
36But Jesus having heard the word that was spoken, saith to the ruler of the synagogue: Fear not, only believe.
37And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
38And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much.
39And going in, he saith to them: Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
40And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
41And taking the damsel by the hand, he saith to her: Talitha cumi, which is, being interpreted: Damsel (I say to thee) arise.
42And immediately the damsel rose up, and walked: and she was twelve years old: and they were astonished with a great astonishment.
43And he charged them strictly that no man should know it: and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
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