Mark - Chapter 5

¹ They reached the territory of the Gerasenes on the other side of the lake,

² and when he disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit at once came out from the tombs towards him.

³ The man lived in the tombs and no one could secure him any more, even with a chain,

⁴ because he had often been secured with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one had the strength to control him.

⁵ All night and all day, among the tombs and in the mountains, he would howl and gash himself with stones.

⁶ Catching sight of Jesus from a distance, he ran up and fell at his feet

⁷ and shouted at the top of his voice, 'What do you want with me, Jesus, son of the Most High God? In God's name do not torture me!'

⁸ For Jesus had been saying to him, 'Come out of the man, unclean spirit.'

⁹ Then he asked, 'What is your name?' He answered, 'My name is Legion, for there are many of us.'

¹⁰ And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the district.

¹¹ Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding,

¹² and the unclean spirits begged him, 'Send us to the pigs, let us go into them.'

¹³ So he gave them leave. With that, the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand pigs charged down the cliff into the lake, and there they were drowned.

¹⁴ The men looking after them ran off and told their story in the city and in the country round about; and the people came to see what had really happened.

¹⁵ They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there -- the man who had had the legion in him -- properly dressed and in his full senses, and they were afraid.

¹⁶ And those who had witnessed it reported what had happened to the demoniac and what had become of the pigs.

¹⁷ Then they began to implore Jesus to leave their neighbourhood.

¹⁸ As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed begged to be allowed to stay with him.

¹⁹ Jesus would not let him but said to him, 'Go home to your people and tell them all that the Lord in his mercy has done for you.'

²⁰ So the man went off and proceeded to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.

²¹ When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lake.

²² Then the president of the synagogue came up, named Jairus, and seeing him, fell at his feet

²³ and begged him earnestly, saying, 'My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her that she may be saved and may live.'

²⁴ Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.

²⁵ Now there was a woman who had suffered from a haemorrhage for twelve years;

²⁶ after long and painful treatment under various doctors, she had spent all she had without being any the better for it; in fact, she was getting worse.

²⁷ She had heard about Jesus, and she came up through the crowd and touched his cloak from behind, thinking,

²⁸ 'If I can just touch his clothes, I shall be saved.'

²⁹ And at once the source of the bleeding dried up, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint.

³⁰ And at once aware of the power that had gone out from him, Jesus turned round in the crowd and said, 'Who touched my clothes?'

³¹ His disciples said to him, 'You see how the crowd is pressing round you; how can you ask, "Who touched me?" '

³² But he continued to look all round to see who had done it.

³³ Then the woman came forward, frightened and trembling because she knew what had happened to her, and she fell at his feet and told him the whole truth.

³⁴ 'My daughter,' he said, 'your faith has restored you to health; go in peace and be free of your complaint.'

³⁵ While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the president of the synagogue to say, 'Your daughter is dead; why put the Master to any further trouble?'

³⁶ But Jesus overheard what they said and he said to the president of the synagogue, 'Do not be afraid; only have faith.'

³⁷ And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

³⁸ So they came to the house of the president of the synagogue, and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly.

³⁹ He went in and said to them, 'Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.'

⁴⁰ But they ridiculed him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child's father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay.

⁴¹ And taking the child by the hand he said to her, 'Talitha kum!' which means, 'Little girl, I tell you to get up.'

⁴² The little girl got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At once they were overcome with astonishment,

⁴³ and he gave them strict orders not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.

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