Mark 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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