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1 Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.
2 When Jesus was getting out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit came to meet him out of the tombs.
3 The man lived in the tombs. No one could restrain him anymore, not even with a chain.
4 For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles had been shattered. No one was strong enough to subdue him.
5 Throughout every night and day in the tombs and in the mountains, he cried out and cut himself with sharp stones.
6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran to him and bowed down before him.
7 Then he cried out with a loud voice, saying, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you by God himself, do not torment me.”
8 For he had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit.”
9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He answered him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
10 Then he begged Jesus repeatedly that he would not send them out of the region.
11 Now a great herd of pigs was there feeding on the hill,
12 and they begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter into them.”
13 So he allowed them, and the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. Then the herd— about two thousand pigs— rushed down the steep hill into the sea, and drowned in the sea.
14 Then those who were feeding the pigs ran away and reported this in the city and in the countryside, and so people went out to see what it was that had happened.
15 Then they came to Jesus and they saw the demon- possessed man, the one who had been possessed by the Legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
16 Those who had seen what happened to the demon- possessed man told them about it, and about the pigs.
17 Then they started to beg Jesus to depart from their region.
18 When he was getting into the boat, the demon- possessed man begged him that he might be with him.
19 But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go to your house and to your people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has shown you mercy.”
20 So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
21 Now when Jesus had crossed over again to the other side, in the boat, a great crowd gathered around him, as he was beside the sea.
22 Then, see, one of the leaders of the synagogue, named Jairus, came, and when he saw him, he fell at his feet.
23 He begged him repeatedly, saying, “My little daughter is near the end. Come in order to lay your hands on her so that she may be healed and live.”
24 So Jesus went with him, and a great crowd followed him and pressed close around him.
25 Now a woman was there with a flow of blood for twelve years.
26 She had suffered much from many doctors, and had spent everything that she had, and was not helped, but instead she became worse.
27 When she had heard the reports about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak.
28 For she said, “If I touch just his clothes, I will be healed.”
29 Immediately her flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed from the disease.
30 Jesus immediately realized in himself that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 Then his disciples said to him, “You see this crowd pressed in on you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”
32 But Jesus looked around to see who had done it.
33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, afraid and trembling, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.
34 But he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be healed from your disease.”
35 While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader’ s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any longer?”
36 But when Jesus overheard the message they spoke, he said to the leader of the synagogue, “Do not fear. Only believe.”
37 He did not permit anyone to accompany him, except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.
38 They came to the house of the leader of the synagogue and he saw a commotion, and people weeping and wailing loudly.
39 When he entered, he said to them, “Why are you upset and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeps.”
40 Then they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took along the father of the child, the mother, and those who were with him, and he went in where the child was.
41 Then he took the hand of the child and said to her, “Talitha, koum!” which is translated: “Little girl, I say to you, get up.”
42 Immediately the little girl got up and walked (for she was twelve years of age). They were immediately astonished with great amazement.
43 Then he strictly ordered them that no one should know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.
The Gospel of Mark