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Mark 5 :: New English Translation (NET)

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The Gerasene Demoniac

(Mat 8:28–9:1; Luk 8:26–39 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:1 - So they came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:2 - Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:3 - He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:4 - For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:5 - Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:6 - When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:7 - Then he cried out with a loud voice, "Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God - do not torment me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:8 - (For Jesus had said to him, "Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!" )
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:9 - Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:10 - He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:11 - There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:12 - And the demonic spirits begged him, "Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:13 - Jesus gave them permission. So the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and about two thousand were drowned in the lake.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:14 - Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:15 - They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind - the one who had the "Legion" - and they were afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:16 - Those who had seen what had happened to the demon-possessed man reported it, and they also told about the pigs.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:17 - Then they asked Jesus to leave their region.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:18 - As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed asked if he could go with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:19 - But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:20 - So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him, and all were amazed.

Miracles and Healing

(Mat 9:18–26; Luk 8:40–56 )
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:21 - When Jesus had crossed again in a boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:22 - Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:23 - He asked him urgently, "My little daughter is near death. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:24 - Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around him.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:25 - Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:26 - She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:27 - When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak,
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:28 - for she kept saying, "If only I touch his clothes, I will be healed."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:29 - At once the bleeding stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:30 - Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:31 - His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing against you and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:32 - But he looked around to see who had done it.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:33 - Then the woman, with fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:34 - He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:35 - While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?"
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:36 - But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue ruler, "Do not be afraid; just believe."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:37 - He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:38 - They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:39 - When he entered he said to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:40 - And they began making fun of him. But he put them all outside and he took the child's father and mother and his own companions and went into the room where the child was.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:41 - Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up."
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:42 - The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.
Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:43 - He strictly ordered that no one should know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
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