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Mark

Chapter 5

The man among the tombs

43 verses

Key verse — Mark 5:34

“Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and be healed of your plague.”

The man among the tombs

¹ And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

² And when he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

³ who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains,

⁴ because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; and no one was able to tame him.

⁵ And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

⁶ But when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

⁷ and cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”

⁸ For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit.”

⁹ And he asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

¹⁰ And he begged him much that he would not send them out of the country.

¹¹ Now a great herd of swine was feeding there on the mountain.

¹² And all the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.”

¹³ And at once Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea. They were about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea.

¹⁴ And those who fed the swine fled, and told it in the city and in the country. And they came out to see what it was that had happened.

¹⁵ And they come to Jesus, and see the one who had been demon-possessed sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind—the one who had the legion—and they were afraid.

¹⁶ And those who saw it told them how it happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the swine.

¹⁷ And they began to beg him to depart from their region.

¹⁸ And when he had got into the boat, the one who had been demon-possessed begged him that he might be with him.

¹⁹ But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your own people, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you.”

²⁰ And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and all marveled.

Jairus and the woman

²¹ And when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

²² And look, one of the rulers of the synagogue comes, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he falls at his feet

²³ and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, that she may be saved, and she will live.”

²⁴ And he went with him; and a great crowd followed him and pressed on him.

²⁵ And a certain woman who had an issue of blood twelve years,

²⁶ and had suffered many things from many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

²⁷ when she heard about Jesus, came in the crowd behind and touched his garment.

²⁸ For she said, “If I may touch even his clothes, I shall be saved.”

²⁹ And immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed of the plague.

³⁰ And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”

³¹ And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing on you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”

³² And he looked around to see her who had done this.

³³ But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth.

³⁴ And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and be healed of your plague.”

The child raised

³⁵ While he was still speaking, they come from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

³⁶ As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he says to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only believe.”

³⁷ And he permitted no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

³⁸ And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees a tumult, and those who wept and wailed greatly.

³⁹ And when he had gone in, he says to them, “Why do you make this tumult and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeps.”

⁴⁰ And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he takes the father of the child, and the mother, and those with him, and goes in where the child was lying.

⁴¹ And he took the child by the hand and said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which is, being interpreted, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”

⁴² And immediately the little girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years old. And they were overcome with great amazement.

⁴³ And he charged them strictly that no one should know it, and said that something should be given her to eat.

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