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1153  /   Mark 5:20 
den ­plants, with such big branch­es that
the ­birds can ­perch in its shade.”
33  With many sim­i ­l ar par­a ­bles ­Jesus
spoke the word to them, as much as they
could un­der­stand. 34  He did not say any­
thing to them with­out us­ing a par­a­ble.
But when he was ­a lone with his own dis­
ci­ples, he ex­plained ev­ery­thing.
Jesus Calms the Storm
35  That day when eve­n ing came, he said
to his dis­c i­ples, “Let us go over to the
oth­er side.” 36  Leav­ing the ­crowd be­hind,
they took him ­a long, just as he was, in the
boat. ­T here were also oth­er ­boats with
him. 37  A fu­ri­ous ­squall came up, and the
waves ­broke over the boat, so that it was
near­ly ­swamped. 38  ­Jesus was in the ­stern,
sleep­ing on a cush­ion. The dis­ci­ples woke
him and said to him, “Teach­er, ­don’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 ­a fraid? Do you ­still have no faith?”
41  They were ter­r i­f ied and ­a sked each
oth­er, “Who is this? Even the wind and
the ­waves obey him!”
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 ­large 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 ­steep
bank into the lake and were drowned.
14  Those tend­i ng the pigs ran off and
re­port­ed this in the town and coun­t ry­
side, and the peo­ple went out to see what
had hap­p ened. 15  When they came to
Jesus, they saw the man who had been
pos­sessed by the le­gion of de­mons, sit­ting
there, ­dressed and in his ­right mind; and
they were ­a fraid. 16  Those who had seen it
told the peo­ple what had hap­pened to the
de­mon-pos­sessed man — ​a nd told ­about
the pigs as well. 17  Then the peo­ple be­gan
to ­plead with ­Jesus to ­leave ­their re­gion.
The man from the region
of the Gerasenes knew
dead ­people better
than his own family. He lived with the
dead, slept in the tombs, and spent
every day there. Good morning,
bones and decomposing bodies!
Jesus Restores a Demon-
Possessed Man
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They went ­across 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
tombs to meet him. 3  This man ­lived in the
tombs, and no one ­could bind him any­
more, 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 ­a mong the
tombs and in the ­h ills he ­would cry out
and cut him­self with stones.
6  When he saw ­Jesus from a dis­t ance,
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 tor­t ure me!” 8  For ­Jesus had said to
Mark 5:3
18  As ­Jesus
was get­t ing 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
peo­ple and tell them how much the Lord
has done for you, and how he has had
mer­c y on you.” 20  So the man went away
and be­gan to tell in the De­cap­o­l is  b how
a  1 
Some manuscripts Gadarenes; other manuscripts
Gergesenes    b  20  That is, the Ten Cities