Mark 5 — Greek text and reception

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They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

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As He stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit immediately met Him from the tombs.

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He made his dwelling among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, even with a chain.

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He had often been bound with fetters and chains, but he had torn the chains apart and shattered the fetters. No one had the strength to subdue him.

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Continually, night and day, among the tombs and on the mountains, he cried out and cut himself with stones.

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Seeing Jesus from far away, he ran and bowed before Him.

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He cried out with a loud voice and said, “What have You to do with me, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I adjure You by God: do not torment me!”

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For He had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!”

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He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to Him, “Legion is my name, because we are many.”

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He begged Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

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Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there near the mountain.

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They begged Him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

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He allowed them. The unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea—about two thousand—and they drowned in the sea.

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Those tending them fled and reported it in the city and in the fields. People came to see what had happened.

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They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting, clothed and in his right mind—the one who had had the legion—and they were afraid.

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Those who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and about the pigs.

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They began begging Him to leave their territory.

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As He was boarding the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged Him to let him be with Him.

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He did not allow him, but said to him, “Go home to your own people and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how He has had mercy on you.”

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He went away and began proclaiming in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.

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When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around Him, and He was beside the sea.

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One of the synagogue rulers came, named Jairus. Seeing Him, he fell at His feet

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and begged Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she may be saved and live.”

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He went with him. A large crowd followed Him and pressed against Him.

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A woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,

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and had suffered much under many physicians and spent everything she had, without any benefit but instead growing worse,

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heard about Jesus. She came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.

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For she was saying, “If I touch even His clothes, I will be saved.”

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Immediately the source of her blood dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed of the affliction.

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Immediately Jesus, recognizing in Himself that power had gone out from Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”

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His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing against You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

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He kept looking around to see the woman who had done this.

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The woman, afraid and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell before Him and told Him the whole truth.

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He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace, and be well, free from your affliction.”

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While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house, saying, “Your daughter has died. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

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Jesus, overhearing the word being spoken, said to the synagogue ruler, “Do not fear; only believe.”

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He allowed no one to accompany Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.

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They came to the synagogue ruler's house, and He saw a commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly.

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He went in and said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child has not died but is sleeping.”

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They laughed at Him. But He put them all outside, took the child's father and mother and those with Him, and went in where the child was.

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Taking the child's hand, He said to her, “Talitha koum,” which translated means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise!”

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Immediately the little girl rose and walked around, for she was twelve years old. Immediately they were overcome with great amazement.

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He gave them strict orders that no one should know this, and said that she should be given something to eat.