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took him a
­ long, just as he was, in the boat.
There were also oth­er b
­ oats with him. 37 A
fu­ri­ous s ­ quall came up, and the ­waves
broke over the boat, so that it was near­ly
­swamped. 38 ­Jesus was in the ­stern, sleep­
ing on a cush­ion. The dis­ci­ples woke him
and said to him, “Teach­er, d
­ on’t you care
if we drown?”
39 He got up, re­buked the wind and said
to the ­waves, “Qui­et! Be ­still!” Then the
wind died down and it was com­plete­ly
calm.
40 He said to his dis­ci­ples, “Why are you
so ­afraid? Do you ­still have no faith?”
41 They were ter­ri­fied and ­asked each
oth­er, “Who is this? Even the wind and the
waves obey him!”
J ­ esus Restores a Demon-Possessed
Man
5
They went a
­ cross the lake to the re­gion
of the Ger­a­senes.  a 2 When ­Jesus got out
of the boat, a man with an im­pure spir­it
came from the t ­ ombs to meet him. 3 This
man l ­ ived in the ­tombs, and no one c ­ ould
bind him any­more, not even with a ­chain.
4 For he had of­ten been ­chained hand and
foot, but he tore the ­chains ­apart and ­broke
the ­irons on his feet. No one was ­strong
enough to sub­due him. 5 Night and day
among the ­tombs and in the ­hills he ­would
cry out and cut him­self with stones.
6 When he saw ­Jesus from a dis­tance,
he ran and fell on his k
­ nees in f ­ ront of
him. 7 He shout­ed at the top of his ­voice,
“What do you want with me, ­Jesus, Son of
the Most High God? In ­God’s name ­don’t
tor­ture me!” 8 For ­Jesus had said to him,
“Come out of this man, you im­pure spir­it!”
9   Then ­Jesus ­asked him, “What is your
name?”
“My name is Le­gion,” he re­plied, “for we
are many.” 10   And he ­begged ­Jesus ­again
and ­again not to send them out of the area.
11 A l ­ arge herd of pigs was feed­ing on
the near­by hill­side. 12   The de­mons ­begged
Jesus, “Send us ­among the pigs; al­low us to
go into them.” 13 He gave them per­mis­sion,
and the im­pure spir­its came out and went
into the pigs. The herd, ­about two thou­
sand in num­ber, r ­ ushed down the s ­ teep
bank into the lake and were drowned.
14 Those tend­ing the pigs ran off and re­
port­ed this in the town and coun­try­side,
and the peo­ple went out to see what had
hap­pened. 15 When they came to ­Jesus,
they saw the man who had been pos­sessed
by the le­gion of de­mons, sit­ting t ­ here,
dressed and in his ­right mind; and they
were ­afraid. 16 Those who had seen it told
the peo­ple what had hap­pened to the de­
mon-pos­sessed man — ​and told ­about the
pigs as well. 17 Then the peo­ple be­gan to
plead with ­Jesus to ­leave ­their re­gion.
18 As ­Jesus was get­ting into the boat,
the man who had been de­mon-pos­sessed
begged to go with him. 19 ­Jesus did not let
him, but said, “Go home to your own peo­
ple and tell them how much the Lord has
done for you, and how he has had mer­cy on
you.” 20 So the man went away and be­gan
to tell in the De­cap­o­lis  b how much ­Jesus
had done for him. And all the peo­ple were
amazed.
J ­ esus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals
a Sick Woman
21 When ­Jesus had ­again ­crossed over by
boat to the oth­er side of the lake, a l ­ arge
­crowd gath­ered ­around him ­while he was
by the lake. 22 Then one of the syn­a­gogue
lead­ers, ­named Ja­i­rus, came, and when he
saw ­Jesus, he fell at his feet. 23   He plead­ed
ear­nest­ly with him, “My lit­tle daugh­ter is
dy­ing. P
­ lease come and put your ­hands on
her so that she will be h
­ ealed and live.” 24 So
Jesus went with him.
A ­large ­crowd fol­lowed and ­pressed
around him. 25 And a wom­an was ­there who
had been sub­ject to bleed­ing for t ­ welve
­ reat deal un­
­years. 26 She had suf­fered a g
der the care of many doc­tors and had ­spent
all she had, yet in­stead of get­ting bet­ter she
grew ­worse. 27  When she ­heard ­about ­Jesus,
she came up be­hind him in the ­crowd and
­touched his ­cloak, 28   be­cause she ­thought,
“If I just t ­ ouch his ­clothes, I will be h
­ ealed.”
29   Im­me­di­ate­ly her bleed­ing ­stopped and
she felt in her body that she was f ­ reed from
her suf­fer­ing.
30 At once ­Jesus re­al­ized that pow­er had
gone out from him. He ­turned ­around in
the c ­ rowd and ­asked, “Who ­touched my
clothes?”
31 “You see the peo­ple crowd­ing ­against
you,” his dis­ci­ples an­swered, “and yet you
can ask, ‘Who ­touched me?’ ”
32 But ­Jesus kept look­ing ­around to see
who had done it. 33 Then the wom­an, know­
ing what had hap­pened to her, came and
fell at his feet and, trem­bling with fear,
told him the ­whole ­truth. 34 He said to her,
“Daugh­ter, your f ­ aith has ­healed you. Go in
peace and be ­freed from your suf­fer­ing.”
a  1  Some manuscripts Gadarenes; other
manuscripts Gergesenes    b  20  That is, the
Ten Cities