Mark 5:8-40

⁸Because He was saying to him, “You unclean spirit, come out of the man!”

⁹Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “Legion is my name, because we are many.”

¹⁰He started begging Him repeatedly that He would not send them out of that region.

¹¹Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside.

¹²So all the demons begged Him saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

¹³And forthwith Jesus gave them permission; and coming out the unclean spirits went into the pigs (there were about two thousand); but the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned by the sea.

¹⁴So those who were tending the pigs ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside. And they went out to see what it was that had happened.

¹⁵They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been demonized, who had the legion, sitting and clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

¹⁶Those who had seen it related to them how it happened to the demonized man, and about the pigs.

¹⁷Then they began to implore Him to depart from their borders.

¹⁸Well upon His getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized started begging Him that he might be with Him.

¹⁹But Jesus did not permit him, but said to him, “Go home to your family and report to them how much the Lord has done for you; and He had mercy on you.”

²⁰So he departed and began to proclaim in Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and all were marveling.

²¹Now when Jesus had crossed over again by boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to Him; and He was by the sea.

²²And then, one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, comes, and upon finding Him he falls at His feet

²³and pleads earnestly with Him, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; do come and lay your hands on her so that she may be saved, and she will live.”

²⁴So He went with him. A large crowd was also following Him, and they were pressing around Him.

²⁵Now a certain woman—who had been bleeding for twelve years,

²⁶and had suffered many things under many doctors, and had spent all that she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse—

²⁷when she heard about Jesus, she came from behind in the crowd and touched His garment.

²⁸(She had kept saying, “If I can just touch His clothes, I will be healed.”)

²⁹Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she knew in her body that she was healed from the affliction.

³⁰And instantly Jesus perceived within Himself that some power had gone out of Him, and turning around in the crowd He said, “Who touched my clothes?”

³¹So His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’?”

³²But He kept looking around to see who had done it.

³³So the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

³⁴And He said to her: “Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go into peace and be healed from your affliction.”

³⁵While He was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying: “Your daughter died. Why trouble the teacher further?”

³⁶But immediately upon hearing the spoken message Jesus said to the synagogue ruler, “Don't be afraid; just believe!”

³⁷He allowed no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.

³⁸Then He came to the synagogue ruler's house and found a commotion—weeping and loud wailing.

³⁹So upon entering He said to them: “Why are you making such a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”

⁴⁰But they started ridiculing Him. After He put them all out, He took the child's father and mother, and those with Him, and went in where the child was lying.