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816  |  Mark 5:6 
6  When he saw ­Jesus from a dis­t ance, he ran
and fell on his ­k nees in ­f ront of him. 7  He shout­
ed 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 him, “Come out of this man, you im­
pure spir­it!”
9  Then ­J esus ­a sked him, “What is your
name?”
“My name is Le­g ion,” 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 feed­i ng on the
near­by hill­side. 12  The de­mons ­begged ­Jesus,
“Send us ­a mong the pigs; al­low us to go into
them.” 13  He gave them per­m is­sion, and the
im­pure spir­its came out and went into the
pigs. The herd, ­about two thou­sand in num­
ber, ­r ushed down the ­steep bank into the lake
and were drowned.
14  Those tend­i ng the pigs ran off and re­port­
ed this in the town and coun­t ry­side, 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 le­g ion of de­
mons, sit­t ing ­t here, ­d ressed and in his ­r ight
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 J ­ esus to ­leave t ­ heir re­g ion.
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  a how
much ­Jesus had done for him. And all the peo­
ple were amazed.
Jesus Raises a Dead Girl and Heals a Sick
Woman
21  When ­Jesus had ­a gain ­c rossed over by
boat to the oth­er side of the lake, a ­large ­crowd
gath­ered ­a round him ­while he was by the lake.
22  Then one of the syn­a ­gogue lead­ers, ­n amed
Ja­i ­r us, came, and when he saw ­Jesus, he fell at
his feet. 23  He plead­ed ear­nest­ly with him, “My
lit­t le daugh­ter is dy­i ng. ­Please come and put
your ­hands on her so that she will be ­healed
and live.” 24  So ­Jesus went with him.
A ­large ­crowd fol­lowed and ­pressed ­a round
him. 25  And a wom­a n was ­t here who had been
sub­ject to bleed­i ng for ­t welve ­years. 26  She had
suf­fered a ­g reat deal un­der the care of many
a  20 
That is, the Ten Cities    b  36  Or Ignoring   
doc­tors and had ­spent all she had, yet in­stead
of get­t ing bet­ter she grew ­worse. 27  When she
heard ­about ­Jesus, she came up be­h ind him
in the ­c rowd and ­touched his ­c loak, 28  be­
cause she ­t hought, “If I just ­touch his ­clothes,
I will be ­healed.” 29  Im­me­d i­ate­ly her bleed­i ng
stopped and she felt in her body that she was
f reed from her suf­fer­i ng.
30  At once ­Jesus re­a l­i zed that pow­e r had
gone out from him. He ­t urned ­a round in the
crowd and ­asked, “Who ­touched my clothes?”
31  “You see the peo­p le crowd­i ng ­a gainst
you,” his dis­ci­ples an­swered, “and yet you can
ask, ‘Who ­touched me?’ ”
32  But ­Jesus kept look­i ng ­a round to see who
had done it. 33  Then the wom­a n, know­i ng what
had hap­pened to her, came and fell at his feet
and, trem­bling with fear, told him the ­w hole
t ruth. 34  He said to her, “Daugh­ter, your ­faith
has ­healed you. Go in ­peace and be ­f reed from
your suf­fer­i ng.”
35  While ­Jesus was ­still speak­i ng, some peo­
ple came from the ­house of Ja­i ­r us, the syn­a­
gogue lead­er. “Your daugh­ter is dead,” they
said. “Why both­er the teach­er any­more?”
36  Over­hear­i ng  b what they said, ­Jesus told
him, “Don’t be ­a fraid; just be­l ieve.”
37  He did not let any­one fol­low him ex­c ept
Pe­ter, ­James and John the broth­er of ­James.
38  When they came to the home of the syn­a­
gogue lead­er, ­Jesus saw a com­mo­t ion, with
peo­ple cry­i ng and wail­i ng loud­ly. 39  He went
in and said to them, “Why all this com­mo­t ion
and wail­i ng? The ­child is not dead but ­asleep.”
40  But they l ­ aughed at him.
Af­ter he put them all out, he took the ­child’s
fa­t her and moth­er and the dis­ci­ples who were
with him, and went in ­w here the ­child was.
41  He took her by the hand and said to her,
“Tal­i­tha koum!” (which ­means “Lit­t le girl, I
say to you, get up!”). 42  Im­me­d i­ate­l y the girl
stood up and be­gan to walk ­a round (she was
t welve ­years old). At this they were com­plete­
ly as­ton­ished. 43  He gave ­strict or­ders not to let
any­one know ­about this, and told them to give
her some­t hing to eat.
A Prophet Without Honor
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Jesus left ­t here and went to his home­town,
ac­c om­p a­n ied by his dis­c i­ples. 2  When
the Sab­bath came, he be­gan to ­teach in the
syn­a­gogue, and many who ­heard him were
amazed.
“Where did this man get ­t hese ­t hings?” they
asked. “What’s this wis­dom that has been giv­
en him? What are ­t hese re­mark­able mir­a­cles