Mark 5
Jesus Exorcises Demons (5:1–20)
5:1 And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. 2 And having gone forth out of the boat, he immediately met a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit, 3 who lived in the tombs. And not even with a chain was anyone able to confine him anymore. 4 For he had often been bound with leg chains and handcuffs, but the cuffs had been wrenched apart by him, and the chains were shattered, and no one was strong enough to control him. 5 And constantly—all night and all day—in the tombs and in the mountains, he was shouting and cutting/bruising himself with rocks. 6 And having seen Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt in front of him. 7 And having shouted with a loud voice, he says, “Mind your own business, Jesus, son of the Most High God! I urge you by God not to torture me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, unclean spirit!” 9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he says, answering, “Legion is my name, because we are many.” 10 And he begged him repeatedly that he would not send them out of the region. 11 Near the mountain there was a great herd of hogs feeding. 12 And they begged him, saying, “Send us into the hogs, that we might enter into them.” 13 And he permitted them. And having gone out of the man, the unclean spirits entered into the hogs and rushed the herd, numbering about two thousand, down the cliff into the sea. And they were drowned in the sea.
14 And those who fed the hogs fled and told it in the city and in the countryside. And the people came to see what it is that has happened. 15 And they come to Jesus and see the demon-possessed man sitting, clothed and sane—the same one who had had the legion—and they were afraid. 16 And those who saw it related to them what happened to the demon-possessed man and about the hogs. 17 And they began to beg him to leave their region. 18 And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged that he might go with him. 19 But he did not permit him to, but he says to him, “Go into your home, to your own people, and proclaim to them how much the Lord did for you and had mercy on you.” 20 And he departed and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
Jesus Heals a Woman and Raises a Girl (5:21–43)
21 And Jesus having crossed over in the boat again to the other side, a great crowd was gathered to him, and he was by the sea. 22 And one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, comes and, having seen him, falls at his feet. 23 And he begged him urgently, saying, “My little daughter is about to die. Come, place hands on her so that she may be cured/saved and live.” 24 And he went with him.
And a large crowd followed him and clustered around him. 25 And a woman having a flow of blood for twelve years, 26 suffering many things under many doctors, spending all that she had, not improving but getting worse, 27 hearing stories about Jesus, and coming after him in the crowd, touched his clothes. 28 For she said, “If I should touch even just his clothes, I shall be cured/saved.” 29 And immediately her flow of blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she had been healed of her illness. 30 Jesus, having known in himself immediately that power had gone out of him, having turned to the crowd, said, “Who touched my clothes?” 31 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd clustered around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” 32 And he looked around to see who had done this. 33 And the woman, having been frightened and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth. 34 And he said to her, “Daughter, your trust has cured/saved you. Go in peace, and be whole from your disease.”
35 While he was speaking, people come from the synagogue leader’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why are you still bothering the teacher?” 36 And Jesus, ignoring/overhearing what was said, says to the synagogue leader, “Don’t fear—only trust.” 37 And he allowed no one to follow him, except for Peter, Jacob, and John, the brother of Jacob. 38 And they come to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he sees a commotion and people crying and lamenting loudly. 39 And having entered the house, he says to them, “Why are you making this commotion and crying? The child is not dead but sleeps.” 40 And they were laughing at him. But he threw them all outside, keeping with him the father of the child and the mother and those with him, and he enters into where the child was. 41 And having taken the child’s hand, he says to her, “Talitha koum,” which is translated, “Young girl, I say to you: stand up!” 42 And immediately the girl stood up and walked, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were amazed with great amazement. 43 And he sternly directed them that no one should know about this. And he told them to give her something to eat.
