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Mark 5

¹And he went to the other side of the sea, to the territory of the Gerasenes. ²Right when he got out of the boat, he was met by a man with an unclean spirit who came out from among the tombs. ³The man lived in the tombs, and neither chains nor anything else could bind him, ⁴because he had been bound with shackles and chains, and he broke the chains and shattered the shackles, and nobody could control him. ⁵Night and day he would be among the tombs and in the hills screaming and cutting himself with rocks. ⁶And when he saw Jesus from a long ways away, he ran and bowed to him, ⁷and shouted, "What is there between us, Jesus, son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me!" ⁸For Jesus was saying to him, "Unclean spirit! Come out of the man!" ⁹And he asked it (the spirit), "What is your name?"
And it said, "My name is legion, for we are many!" ¹⁰Then it begged him many times not to send him out of the region.

¹¹Now in that area there was a large herd of pigs being watched. ¹²And it begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, so that we can enter them." ¹³So he permitted them to do so, and the unclean spirits left the man and entered the pigs, and the herd swarmed over the cliff into the sea. There were about 2,000 of them and the drowned in the sea. ¹⁴And the people who were tending them fled and reported it in the city and in the countryside, and people came to see what had happened. ¹⁵And they came to Jesus and saw the man who had been tormented by the demons, who had been possessed by the legion, sitting healed and mentally healthy, and they were afraid. ¹⁶And those who had seen it told them what had happened to the man tormented by demons and to the pigs. ¹⁷And they began to beg him to leave their region. ¹⁸And as he got into the boat, the man who had been tormented by demons begged him to let him come along, ¹⁹but Jesus didn't let him, and told him, "Go to your home and to your relatives, and tell them what the Lord has done and how he has shown you mercy. ²⁰And he went away and began to preach about the things that Jesus had done for him in the Decapolis region, and they were all amazed.

²¹When Jesus had crossed over the sea, a large crowd gathered around him, and they were by the sea. ²²And a ruler of the synagogue named Jairos came to him, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet, ²³and begged him over and over again, "My daughter is terminally ill, please come and lay your hands on her so that she will be healed and live!" ²⁴So Jesus went with him.

Now a large crowd followed him and was crowding around him. ²⁵Now there was a woman who had had a flow of blood for 12 years. ²⁶She had gone through much with many physicians, and had spent everything she had with no result, but rather had gotten worse. ²⁷She had heard about Jesus and she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothing, ²⁸because she kept saying, "If I can just touch his clothing, I will be healed!" ²⁹And immediately the source of her blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed from this sickness. ³⁰But Jesus knew immeidately in himself that power had gone out of him, and he turned in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothing?" ³¹And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing in on you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'" ³²But he looked around for the woman who had done this. ³³And the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, went and fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. ³⁴But he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you whole. Go in peace and be cured of your illness.

³⁵While he was still speaking, messengers came from the home of the ruler of the synagogue saying, "Your daughter has died. Why bother the teacher any more?" ³⁶But Jesus heard the message they brought and said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid! Just believe!" ³⁷And he wouldn't let anyone go with him except Peter and James and John, James's brother. ³⁸And they came into the house of the ruler of the synagogue and he saw people mourning and weeping and making lots of noise. ³⁹And when he had come in he said to them, "Why are you mourning and weeping? The childn hasn't died. She's sleeping!" ⁴⁰But they mocked him. And he threw everyone out and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in to the room where the child was. ⁴¹And he took the child's hands and said to her, "Little girl, I tell you, Get up!" ⁴²And immediately the girl got up and walked around, for she was 12 years old, and everyone was very amazed. ⁴³And Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone about this, and told them to get her something to eat.

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