Mark 5:9-30

⁹And he asked him, “What is your name?” “My name,” he said, “is Legion, for there are many of us;”

¹⁰and he begged Jesus again and again not to send them away out of that country.

¹¹There was a large drove of pigs close by, feeding on the hillside;

¹²and the spirits begged Jesus, “Send us into the pigs so that we can take possession of them.”

¹³Jesus gave them leave. They came out, and entered into the pigs; and the drove — about two thousand in number — rushed down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

¹⁴Then the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around; and the people went to see what had happened.

¹⁵When they came to Jesus, they found the possessed man sitting there, clothed and in his right mind — the man who had had the ‘Legion’ in him — and they were awe-struck.

¹⁶Then those who had seen it related to them all that had happened to the possessed man, as well as about the pigs;

¹⁷so they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.

¹⁸As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.

¹⁹But Jesus refused. “Go back to your home, to your own people,” he said, “and tell them of all that the Lord has done for you, and how he took pity on you.”

²⁰So the man went, and began to proclaim in the district of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

²¹By the time Jesus had recrossed in the boat to the opposite shore, a great number of people had gathered to meet him, and were standing by the sea.

²²One of the leaders of the synagogue, whose name was Jairus, came and, as soon as he saw Jesus, threw himself at his feet and begged him repeatedly,

²³saying, “My little daughter is at death's door. Please come and place your hands on her so that she may recover and live.”

²⁴So Jesus went with him. A great number of people followed Jesus, and kept pressing around him.

²⁵Meanwhile a woman who for twelve years had suffered from hemorrhage,

²⁶and undergone much at the hands of many doctors, (spending all she had without obtaining any relief, but, on the contrary, growing worse),

²⁷heard about Jesus, came behind in the crowd, and touched his cloak.

²⁸“If I can only touch his clothes,” she said, “I will get well!”

²⁹At once her bleeding stopped, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her affliction.

³⁰Jesus at once became aware of the power that had gone out from him, and, turning around in the crowd, he said, “Who touched my clothes?”