Luke 8:29-54

²⁹For Jesus was commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions it had seized him, and, even when secured with chains and fetters, and watched, he would break through anything that bound him, and be driven by the demon into the Wilds.

³⁰“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he answered (for many demons had taken possession of him);

³¹and the demons begged Jesus not to order them away into the bottomless pit.

³²There was a drove of many pigs close by feeding on the hill-side; and the demons begged Jesus to give them leave to enter into them. Jesus gave them leave.

³³They came out from the man and took possession of the pigs; and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned.

³⁴When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around.

³⁵The people went out to see what had happened, and, when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at Jesus' feet; and they were awe-struck.

³⁶Those who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been delivered.

³⁷Then all the people in the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were terrified. Jesus got into a boat and returned.

³⁸The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus to let him be with him; but Jesus sent him away.

³⁹“Go back to your home,” he said, “and relate the story of all that God has done for you.” So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.

⁴⁰On his return, Jesus was welcomed by the people; for everyone was looking out for him.

⁴¹And a man named Jairus, who was a synagogue leader, came to Jesus, and threw himself at Jesus' feet, with entreaties that he would come to his house,

⁴²because his only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. As Jesus was going, the people were pressing closely around him.

⁴³And a woman, who had suffered from hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom no one could cure,

⁴⁴came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak. Instantly the hemorrhage ceased.

⁴⁵“Who touched me?” Jesus asked; and, while everyone was denying having done so, Peter exclaimed, “Why, Sir, the people are crowding around you and pressing against you!”

⁴⁶“Somebody touched me,” said Jesus; “for I felt that power had gone out from me.”

⁴⁷Then the woman, when she saw that she was discovered, came forward trembling, and threw herself down before him; and, in the presence of all the people, she told him her reason for touching him, and that she had been cured instantly.

⁴⁸“Daughter,” he said, “your faith has delivered you. Go, and peace be with you.”

⁴⁹Before he had finished speaking, someone came from the house of the synagogue leader and said, “Your daughter is dead! Do not trouble the teacher further.”

⁵⁰But Jesus, hearing this, spoke to the leader, “Do not be afraid; only have faith, and she will yet be delivered.”

⁵¹When he reached the house, he did not allow anyone to go in with him, except Peter, John, and James, and the child's father and mother.

⁵²And everyone was weeping and mourning for her. “Do not weep,” Jesus said, “she is not dead; she is asleep.”

⁵³They began to laugh at him, for they knew that she was dead.

⁵⁴But, taking her by the hand, Jesus said in a loud voice, “Child, rise!”