1Then they went in the boat to the country called Gerasene on the other side of the lake.
2There was a man there that was full of bad spirits. He was mad. He camped in the cemetery there. Before Jesus came to that place, that man walked around in the cemetery and all over the hills there and yelled out and screamed all the time, in the day time and at night time. And he cut himself with stones. People couldn’t tie him up, not even with chains. They tried many times to tie up his hands and his feet, but it was no good. He was too strong. He just broke those chains. Nobody could hold him or make him sit down quiet. When Jesus got out of the boat
6that madman saw him from a long way off. He ran right up to Jesus and got down on his knees in front of him, to show him respect.
7Jesus said to the bad spirit, “Come out of this man.” But the spirit in him screamed, “Why have you come here? I know you. You are Jesus. You are the son of God. He is the big boss of everything. Promise me truly that you will not hurt me.”
9Jesus asked the man, “What is your name?” He said, “My name is Big Mob. You see, we are a mob of bad spirits inside this man.
10Please don’t send us away from this country.”
11There were about 2,000 pigs having a feed on the hill nearby.
12The bad spirits asked Jesus, “Can we go into that big mob of pigs over there?”
13Jesus let those bad spirits go out of the man and go into the pigs. Then those pigs went mad and ran down the steep hill into the lake and drowned themselves in the water.
14The men that looked after the pigs were frightened and they ran back to their community and told everyone what happened. They talked to the people in the town and the people that lived outside of the town too. A lot of people wanted to see for themselves,
15so they ran out to that place where Jesus was. They saw that man sitting down quiet and wearing clothes. He wasn’t mad any more. Then those people got frightened.
16The men that looked after the pigs told them the whole story about the man and the pigs.
17Then all that mob started to ask Jesus strongly to go away from their country and leave them alone.
18Jesus listened to them and started to get into the boat. Then the man, that used to have the bad spirits in him, asked Jesus strongly, “Can I come with you?”
19Jesus said, “No, I want you to go back to your family and to your own mob. I want you to tell everybody about the good things God did for you. Tell them that God was really good to you.”
20Then that man went all over that country called Ten Towns and told everybody that story. He told them all about the good things Jesus did for him. Everybody got a really big surprise.
21Jesus and his followers got back into the boat and went to the other side of the lake. A really big mob of people was waiting for them there beside the water.
22A man called Jairus came up to them. He was one of the bosses of a Jewish meeting place. He saw Jesus and went close to him and got down on his knees in front of him, to show him respect.
23He strongly asked Jesus to help his daughter. He said, “My little girl is really sick and I think she will die. Please come and put your hands on her. I know you can make her better so that she will not die.”
24Jesus listened to the man and started to go with him. The big mob of people followed them. They came up really close and pushed up against him Jesus, all around him.
25While they were walking along, a sick woman was there. A long time before this she started bleeding and that bleeding didn’t stop.
26She went to every doctor but none of them could help her. She spent all her money trying to get better, but it was no good, she only got worse. She kept bleeding for 12 years.
27Then somebody told her about Jesus and she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his coat, I will get better.” So she came up behind Jesus and touched his coat
29and straight away her bleeding stopped. She knew she was better.
30Jesus knew straight away that power went out from him, so he stopped walking, turned around and asked the people, “Who touched my clothes?”
31Jesus’s followers said, “There are big mobs of people here pushing up against you. Why do you ask, ‘Who touched me?’ Lots of people touched you.”
32Jesus kept on looking around to see the person that used his power.
33That woman knew that she was the one that got better, so she was very frightened and she was shaking. She came to Jesus and got down on her knees in front of him, to show him respect, and she told him her story. She told him that she touched him.
34Jesus said to her, “Dear Lady, you really believed in me, so now you are better. You can go home and have no more trouble. You are not sick any more.”
35While Jesus was talking to the woman, somebody came to Jairus from his house with bad news. He said, “I’m sorry, it’s too late. Your little girl is dead. Don’t worry Jesus now.”
36Jesus heard their words but took no notice. He said to Jairus, “Don’t be frightened. Just trust me.”
37Then Jesus told the people, “Stay away from this man’s house.” He only let a few people go with him. They were the girl’s father and mother, and Peter, and James and his young brother John. They were the only ones that went with him.
38They got close to the house, and Jesus heard other people inside it making a big noise. They were crying and shouting aloud for that dead girl.
39Jesus went into the house and asked them, “Why are you making all this noise? That little girl isn’t dead. She is just asleep.”
40They knew the girl was dead, so they just laughed at Jesus. He told them, “Get out,” and he forced them all outside the house. Then Jesus said to the girl’s mother and father, and to his 3 friends, “You come with me.” Then they went together into the room where the girl lay.
41Jesus held the girl’s hand and said to her, in their language, “Talitha Koum.” This means Wake up little girl.
42Straight away that girl woke up, stood up and walked around the room. Her mother and father were really surprised. Their little girl was alive again. She was 12 years old at that time.
43Jesus told them strongly, “Don’t tell anyone that I made this little girl alive again.” Then he said to them, “Now give her some food to eat.”
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