Luke 8:30-54

³⁰In order to expel the demon more easily, Jesus asked the demon, “What is your (sg) name?” He replied, “My name is Crowd/Mob.” He said that because many demons had entered that man.

³¹The demons kept begging Jesus that he would not command them to go into the deep place where God punishes demons.

³²There was a large herd of pigs ◄grazing/rooting for food► on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus that he allow them to enter the pigs. So he did.

³³The demons left the man and entered the pigs. Then the herd of pigs rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.

³⁴When the men who were taking care of the pigs saw what happened, they ran! They told people inside the town and outside the town what had happened.

³⁵So people went out to see what had happened. When they came to where Jesus was, they saw that the man from whom Jesus had expelled the demons was sitting at the feet of Jesus, listening to him. He had clothes on, and his mind was normal again. Then those people became afraid because they thought that Jesus would destroy more of their property (OR, because they realized that he must be very powerful).

³⁶The people who had seen what happened told those who had just arrived how Jesus had healed the man whom demons were controlling before.

³⁷Then those people and many other people HYP from the area near Gerasa asked Jesus to leave their area. They were very afraid of what else Jesus would do to them. So Jesus and the disciples got into the boat to go back across the lake.

³⁸The man from whom he had expelled the demons begged him saying, “ Please, let me go with you!” But Jesus refused. Instead, he said to him,

³⁹“ No, go home and tell people how much God has done for you!” Then he sent him away. So the man went away and told people throughout the nearby town how much Jesus had done for him.

⁴⁰When Jesus and the disciples returned to Capernaum, a crowd of people who had been waiting for him welcomed him.

⁴¹Just then a man named Jairus, who was one of the leaders ◄of the synagogue/of the Jewish meeting place► there, came near and prostrated himself at Jesus' feet. He pleaded with Jesus, “Please come to my house and heal my daughter,

⁴²my only daughter, who is about twelve years old, because she is dying!” As Jesus went with him, many people crowded close to Jesus.

⁴³Then a woman came near. She had been suffering from constant vaginal EUP bleeding for twelve years, but she could not be healed by anyone {no one could heal her}.

⁴⁴She came behind Jesus and touched the edge of his robe in order to be healed. At once her bleeding stopped.

⁴⁵Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When everyone said that they had not touched him, Peter said, “Lord, there is a large crowd of people around you (sg) and crowding against you, so any one of them might have touched you!”

⁴⁶But Jesus said, “ I know that someone deliberately touched me, because my power has healed someone who touched me.”

⁴⁷When the woman realized that she could not prevent Jesus (OR, people) from knowing that she was healed, her body began to shake. She was afraid that because she had disobeyed the law that a woman with such a condition should not touch others, Jesus might scold her for doing that. She prostrated herself before Jesus. As the other people were listening, she told why she had touched him and how she had been healed immediately.

⁴⁸Jesus said to her, “◄Ma'am/My dear woman►, because you believed PRS that I could heal you, I have healed you. Go from here, and may you experience God's peace within you.”

⁴⁹While he was still talking to her, a man from Jairus' house came and said to Jairus, “Your daughter has died. So ◄it is useless that you bother the teacher any longer by urging him to go to your house!/why do you bother the teacher any longer by urging him to go to your house?► RHQ”

⁵⁰But when Jesus heard that, he said to Jairus, “Do not think that there is nothing more that can be done. Just believe that I can help her. If you(sg) do that, she will live again.”

⁵¹When they arrived outside Jairus' house, Jesus allowed only Peter, John, James, and the girl's mother and father to go in Jairus' house with him.

⁵²All the people there were crying and beating their chests to show that they were sad. But, knowing that he would cause the girl to live again, he said to them, “Stop crying! She is not dead! She is just sleeping MET!”

⁵³The people laughed at him, because they knew that the girl was dead.

⁵⁴But Jesus took hold of her hand and called to her, saying, “Child, get up!”