The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Mark 05
1 They came to the other side of the sea,
into the country of the Gadarenes.
2 When he had come out of the boat,
immediately a man with an unclean spirit
met him out of the tombs.
3 He lived in the tombs. Nobody could
bind him any more, not even with chains,
4 because he had been often bound with
fetters and chains, and the chains had
been torn apart by him, and the fetters
broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength
to tame him.
5 Always, night and day, in the tombs and
in the mountains, he was crying out, and
cutting himself with stones.
6 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran
and bowed down to him,
7 and crying out with a loud voice, he
said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus,
you Son ofthe Most High God? I adjure you
by God, don’t torment me.”
8 For he said to him, “Come out of the
man, you unclean spirit!”
9 He asked him, “What is your name?”
He said to him, “My name is Legion, for
we are many.”
10 He begged him much that he would
not send them away out of the country.
11 Now on the mountainside there was a
great herd of pigs feeding.
12 All the demons begged him, saying,
“Send us into the pigs, that we may enter
into them.”
13 At once Jesus gave them permission.
The unclean spirits came out and entered
into the pigs. The herd of about two
thousand rushed down the steep bank into the
sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
14 Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it
in the city and in the country.
The people came to see what it was that
had happened.
15 They came to Jesus, and saw him who
had been possessed by demons sitting,
clothed, and in his right mind, even him
who had the legion; and they were afraid.
16 Those who saw it declared to them
what happened to him who was possessed
by demons, and about the pigs.
17 They began to beg him to depart from
their region.
18 As he was entering into the boat,
he who had been possessed by demons
begged him that he might be with him.
19 He didn’t allow him, but said to him,
“Go to your house, to your friends, and tell
them what great things the Lord has done
for you and how he had mercy on you.”
20 He went his way, and began to proclaim
in Decapolis how Jesus had done
great things for him, and everyone marveled.
21 When Jesus had crossed back over in
the boatto the other side, a great multitude
was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.
22 Behold, one of the rulers of the
synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing
him, he fell at his feet
23 and begged him much, saying, “My little
daughter is at the point of death. Please
come and lay your hands on her, that she
may be made healthy, and live.”
24 He went with him, and a great multitude
followed him, and they pressed upon
him on all sides.
25 A certain woman who had a discharge
of blood for twelve years,
26 and had suffered many things by
many physicians, and had spent all that
she had, and was no better, but rather
grew worse,
27 having heard the things concerning
Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd
and touched his clothes.
28 For she said, “If I just touch his clothes,
I will be made well.”
29 Immediately the flow of her blood was
dried up, and she felt in her body that she
was healed of her affliction.
30 Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself
that the power had gone out from him,
turned around in the crowd and asked,
“Who touched my clothes?”
31 His disciples said to him, “You see the
multitude pressing against you, and you
say, ‘Who touched me?’
32 He looked around to see her who had
done this thing.
33 But the woman, fearing and trembling,
knowing what had been done to her,
came and fell down before him, and told
him all the truth.
34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith
has made you well. Go in peace, and be
cured of your disease.”
35 While he was still speaking, people
came from the synagogue ruler’s house,
saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why
bother the Teacher any more?”
36 But Jesus, when he heard the message
spoken, immediately said to the ruler of
the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
37 He allowed no one to follow him except
Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
38 He came to the synagogue ruler’s
house, and he saw an uproar, weeping,
and great wailing.
39 When he had entered in, he said to
them, “Why do you make an uproar and
weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”
40 They ridiculed him. But he, having put
them all out, took the father of the child,
her mother, and those who were with him,
and went in where the child was lying.
41 Taking the child by the hand, he said to
her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being
interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”
42 Immediately the girl rose up and
walked, for she was twelve years old. They
were amazed with great amazement.
43 He strictly ordered them that no one
should know this, and commanded that
something should be given to her to eat.