The Gospel of Mark 5
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The healing of the demoniac
1So they came over the sea to the land of the Gerasenes. 2When they got out of the boat, they were suddenly confronted by a man with an unclean spirit. 3He was emerging from a graveyard, which was where he lived. Nobody had been able to tie him up, not even with a chain; 4he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he used to tear up the chains and snap the shackles. No one had the strength to tame him. 5On and on, night and day, he used to shout out in the graveyard and on the hillside, and slash himself with stones.
6When he saw Jesus a long way away, he ran and threw himself down in front of him.
7“Why you and me, Jesus?” he shouted at the top of his voice. “Why you and me, son of the High God? By God, stop torturing me!”—8this last, because Jesus was saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of him!”
9“What’s your name?” Jesus asked him.
“Legion,” he replied. “That’s my name—there are lots of us!” 10And he implored Jesus not to send them out of the country.
11It so happened that right there, near the hillside, was a sizable herd of pigs. They were grazing.
12“Send us to the pigs,” begged the spirits, “so that we can enter them.”
13So Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd rushed down the steep slope into the sea—about two thousand of them!—and were drowned.
14The herdsmen fled. They told it in the town, they told it in the countryside, and people came to see what had happened. 15They came to Jesus; and there they saw the man who had been demon-possessed, who had had the “legion,” seated, clothed and stone-cold sober. They were afraid. 16The people who had seen it all told them what had happened to the man—and to the pigs. 17And they began to beg Jesus to leave their district.
18Jesus was getting back into the boat, when the man asked if he could go with him. 19Jesus wouldn’t let him.
“Go back home,” he said. “Go to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you. Tell them how he had pity on you.”
20He went off, and began to announce in the Ten Towns what Jesus had done for him. Everyone was astonished.
Jairus’s daughter and the woman with chronic bleeding
21Jesus crossed over once more in the boat to the other side. There a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the seashore.
22One of the synagogue presidents, a man named Jairus, arrived. When he saw Jesus he fell down at his feet.
23“My daughter’s going to die! My daughter’s going to die!” he pleaded. “Please come—lay your hands on her—rescue her and let her live!”
24Jesus went off with him. A large crowd followed, and pressed in on him.
25A woman who had had internal bleeding for twelve years heard about Jesus. 26(She’d had a rough time at the hands of one doctor after another; she’d spent all she had on treatment, and had got worse rather than better.) 27She came up in the crowd behind him and touched his clothes. 28“If I can just touch his clothes,” she said to herself, “I’ll be rescued.” 29At once her flow of blood dried up. She knew, in her body, that her illness was cured.
30Jesus knew at once, inside himself, that power had gone out of him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”
31“You see this crowd crushing you,” said the disciples, “and you say ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32He looked round to see who had done it. 33The woman came up; she was afraid and trembling, but she knew what had happened to her. She fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth.
34“My daughter,” Jesus said to her, “your faith has rescued you. Go in peace. Be healed from your illness.”
The raising of Jairus’s daughter
35As he said this, some people arrived from the synagogue president’s house.
“Your daughter’s dead,” they said. “Why bother the teacher anymore?”
36Jesus overheard the message. “Don’t be afraid!” he said to the synagogue president. “Just believe!”
37He didn’t let anyone go with him except Peter, James and James’s brother John. 38They arrived at the synagogue president’s house, and saw a commotion, with a lot of weeping and wailing. 39Jesus went inside.
“Why are you making such a fuss?” he said. “Why all this weeping? The child isn’t dead; she’s asleep.” 40And they laughed at him.
He put them all out. Then he took the child’s father and mother, and his companions, and they went in to where the child was. 41He took hold of her hand, and said to her, “Talitha koum,” which means “Time to get up, little girl!” 42At once the girl got up and walked about. (She was twelve years old.) They were astonished out of their wits. 43Then he commanded them over and over not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.
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