Mark 5:6-25

⁶This poor man as soon as he saw Jesus from a long way off ran to meet him, he knelt in front of him.

⁷The man called to him loudly, “Leave me, Jesus! I know you. Your father is above, he is truly Boss for above and for everywhere. You are his own child. What do you want, will you kill me? I beg you, do not send me to the big fire to burn! In that way the spirit talked to Jesus.

⁸Jesus said to the spirit, “Leave the man! Go away!”

⁹Jesus asked the man, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is 'Many'. We are many spirits.”

¹⁰They were asking him, “Do not send us from this country.”

¹¹On that rise there were pigs, many of them, 2,000, they were eating green grass.

¹²The spirits begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs. How about it? Can we go into them?”

¹³He said to them, “Yes, you can go to the pigs.” Right then they left that man, they all went to the pigs, the spirits went into them. Right then all the pigs ran down from the hill, they went straight into the water, they died in the water.

¹⁴The people who looked after the pigs scattered, they ran away afraid. They told many from the town and country. After that many came to see.

¹⁵When they came to Jesus they saw that man who used to be crazy there. He was sitting near Jesus, he had clothes on, he was without evil spirits, not crazy, he was well. After seeing him they became afraid.

¹⁶There were others who were standing there. Earlier they saw the pigs go into the water. They told those as soon as they came, “This Jesus sent the spirits from the man to the pigs. After that they ran down from the hill, they went into the waterhole, the water drowned all the pigs, they are completely dead.”

¹⁷After that the local inhabitants told Jesus, “Go. Leave our country.”

¹⁸Then Jesus climbed in the dinghy. The man who had become well asked Jesus, “Can I come with you?”

¹⁹He replied, “No. Return to your people. Tell them God was sorry for you, he truly made you well.”

²⁰In response to his word that man after he returned was going around in that country, in the east, in the 10 towns. He went to all people. He was telling them, “God made it very good for me. Jesus sent the spirits from me. He healed me.” They all were pleased, they were wondering about Jesus.

^21aThen Jesus returned westwards to the other side of the waterhole.

^21bMany people gathered with Jesus at the edge of the waterhole.

²²A man came, his name was Jairus. He was boss for the meeting house in his town. As soon as he saw Jesus he kneeled down in front of him.

²³He begged him, “My young daughter is very sick, she might die. Come to my camp, touch her with your hand. After that she will not die, she will truly stay alive.”

²⁴Jesus went with him, many were following those two. The people were squashing each other.

²⁵This woman also followed him. That woman had been sick a long time, 12 years. She truly kept losing blood (lit. 'blood kept crawling for her'), it was a big sickness.