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5:1  Yeshua and his talmidim arrived at the other side of the lake, in the Gerasenes’ territory.
5:2  As soon as he disembarked, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the burial caves to meet him.
5:3  He lived in the burial caves; and no one could keep him tied up, not even with a chain.
5:4  He had often been chained hand and foot, but he would snap the chains and break the irons off his feet, and no one was strong enough to control him.
5:5  Night and day he wandered among the graves and through the hills, howling and gashing himself with stones.
5:6  Seeing Yeshua from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him
5:7  and screamed at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Yeshua, Son of God Ha‘Elyon? I implore you in God’s name! Don’t torture me!”
5:8  For Yeshua had already begun saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of this man!”
5:9  Yeshua asked him, “What’s your name?” “My name is Legion,” he answered, “there are so many of us”;
5:10  and he kept begging Yeshua not to send them out of that region.
5:11  Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding near the hill,
5:12  and the unclean spirits begged him, “Send us to the pigs, so we can go into them.”
5:13  Yeshua gave them permission. They came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering around two thousand, rushed down the hillside into the lake and were drowned.
5:14  The swineherds fled and told it in the town and in the surrounding country, and the people went to see what had happened.
5:15  They came to Yeshua and saw the man who had had the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were frightened.
5:16  Those who had seen it told what had happened to the man controlled by demons and to the pigs;
5:17  and the people began begging Yeshua to leave their district.
5:18  As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demonized begged him to be allowed to go with him.
5:19  But Yeshua would not permit it. Instead, he said to him, “Go home to your people, and tell them how much Adonai in his mercy has done for you.”
5:20  He went off and began proclaiming in the Ten Towns how much Yeshua had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
5:21  Yeshua crossed in the boat to the other side of the lake, and a great crowd gathered around him.
5:22  There came to him a synagogue official, Ya’ir by name, who fell at his feet
5:23  and pleaded desperately with him, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please! Come and lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and live!”
5:24  He went with him; and a large crowd followed, pressing all around him.
5:25  Among them was a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years
5:26  and had suffered a great deal under many physicians. She had spent her life savings; yet instead of improving, she had grown worse.
5:27  She had heard about Yeshua, so she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe;
5:28  for she said, “If I touch even his clothes, I will be healed.”
5:29  Instantly the hemorrhaging stopped, and she felt in her body that she had been healed from the disease.
5:30  At the same time, Yeshua, aware that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
5:31  His talmidim responded, “You see the people pressing in on you; and still you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
5:32  But he kept looking around to see who had done it.
5:33  The woman, frightened and trembling, because she knew what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth.
5:34  “Daughter,” he said to her, “your trust has healed you. Go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
5:35  While he was still speaking, people from the synagogue official’s house came, saying, “Your daughter has died. Why bother the rabbi any longer?”
5:36  Ignoring what they had said, Yeshua told the synagogue official, “Don’t be afraid, just keep trusting.”
5:37  He let no one follow him except Kefa, Ya‘akov and Yochanan, Ya‘akov’s brother.
5:38  When they came to the synagogue official’s house, he found a great commotion, with people weeping and wailing loudly.
5:39  On entering, he said to them, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child isn’t dead, she’s just asleep!”
5:40  And they jeered at him. But he put them all outside, took the child’s father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was.
5:41  Taking her by the hand, he said to her, “Talita, kumi!” (which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).
5:42  At once the girl got up and began walking around; she was twelve years old. Everybody was utterly amazed.
5:43  He gave them strict orders to say nothing about this to anyone, and told them to give her something to eat.