1 En hulle het aan die oorkant van die see gekom in die land van die Gadar,ners.

2 En toe Hy uit die skuit gaan, kom daar dadelik uit die grafte Hom tegemoet 'n man met 'n onreine gees,

3 wat sy verblyf in die grafte gehad het. En niemand kon selfs met kettings hom bind nie;

4 want hy was dikwels met voetboeie en kettings gebind, en die kettings is deur hom uitmekaar geruk en die voetboeie stukkend gebreek; en niemand was in staat om hom te tem nie.

5 En altyd, nag en dag, het hy aangehou om te skreeu op die berge en in die grafte en homself met klippe stukkend te slaan.

6 En toe hy Jesus van ver af sien, hardloop hy en val voor Hom neer

7 en skreeu met 'n groot stem en sê: Wat het ek met U te doen, Jesus, Seun van die allerhoogste God? Ek besweer U by God om my nie te pynig nie.

8 Want Hy het vir hom gesê: Onreine gees, gaan uit die man uit!

9 En Hy vra hom: Wat is jou naam? En hy antwoord en sê: Legio is my naam, want ons is baie.

10 Toe smeek hy Hom dringend om hulle nie uit die land weg te stuur nie.

11 En d r teen die berge het 'n groot trop varke gewei,

12 en al die duiwels het Hom gesmeek en gesê: Stuur ons in die varke, sodat ons in hulle kan vaar.

13 En Jesus het hulle dit dadelik toegelaat; en die onreine geeste het uitgegaan en in die varke gevaar, en die trop -- daar was omtrent twee duisend -- het van die krans af in die see gestorm en in die see verdrink.

14 En die wagters van die varke het gevlug en dit in die stad en in die buitewyke vertel; en hulle het uitgekom om te sien wat daar gebeur het.

15 Toe kom hulle by Jesus en sien die besetene sit, gekleed en by sy verstand -- die een wat die legioen gehad het. En hulle was bevrees.

16 Die wat dit gesien het, vertel toe aan hulle hoe dit met die besetene gegaan het, en ook van die varke.

17 En hulle het Hom begin smeek om weg te gaan uit hulle gebied.

18 En toe Hy in die skuit klim, het die man wat van die duiwels besete gewees het, Hom gesmeek om by Hom te kan bly.

19 Maar Jesus het hom dit nie toegelaat nie, maar vir hom gesê: Gaan na jou huis na jou mense toe, en vertel hulle watter groot dinge die Here aan jou gedoen het, en dat Hy jou barmhartig was.

20 En hy het weggegaan en in Dek polis begin verkondig watter groot dinge Jesus aan hom gedoen het, en almal was verwonderd.

21 En toe Jesus weer in die skuit oorgevaar het na die ander kant, het 'n groot menigte by Hom vergader. En Hy was by die see.

22 En daar kom een van die owerstes van die sinagoge met die naam van Ja‹rus; en toe hy Hom sien, val hy aan sy voete neer

23 en smeek Hom dringend en sê: My dogtertjie is op haar uiterste; kom lê haar die hande op, sodat sy gesond kan word, en sy sal lewe.

24 En Hy het saam met hom gegaan. En 'n groot menigte het Hom gevolg en Hom verdring.

25 En 'n sekere vrou wat twaalf jaar lank bloedvloeiing gehad het

26 en veel onder baie geneeshere gely en al haar besittings uitgegee het sonder om enige baat te vind, maar eerder erger geword het,

27 het van Jesus gehoor en onder die skare van agter gekom en sy kleed aangeraak;

28 want sy het gesê: As ek maar sy klere kan aanraak, sal ek gesond word.

29 En dadelik het die fontein van haar bloed opgedroog, en sy het aan haar liggaam bemerk dat sy van haar kwaal genees was.

30 En dadelik toe Jesus in Homself die krag gewaarword wat van Hom uitgegaan het, draai Hy Hom om onder die skare en sê: Wie het my klere aangeraak?

31 En sy dissipels antwoord Hom: U sien dat die skare U verdring, en U sê: Wie het My aangeraak?

32 Toe kyk Hy rond om haar te sien wat dit gedoen het.

33 Die vrou, wat gevrees en gebeef het omdat sy wis wat met haar gebeur het, kom toe en val voor Hom neer en vertel Hom die hele waarheid.

34 En Hy sê vir haar: Dogter, jou geloof het jou gered. Gaan in vrede en wees van jou kwaal genees.

35 Terwyl Hy nog spreek, kom daar mense van die owerste van die sinagoge se huis en sê: U dogter is dood. Waarom val u die Meester nog lastig?

36 Maar dadelik, toe Jesus die woord hoor wat gespreek is, sê Hy vir die owerste van die sinagoge: Moenie vrees nie; glo net.

37 En Hy het niemand toegelaat om saam met Hom te gaan nie, behalwe Petrus en Jakobus en Johannes, die broer van Jakobus.

38 En Hy kom in die huis van die owerste van die sinagoge en sien 'n rumoer: mense wat baie ween en huil.

39 En toe Hy binnegaan, sê Hy vir hulle: Waarom gaan julle so te kere en ween julle? Die kind is nie dood nie, maar slaap.

40 En hulle het Hom uitgelag. Maar Hy het almal uitgedryf en die vader van die kind saamgeneem en die moeder en die wat by Hom was, en ingegaan waar die kind lê.

41 Toe gryp Hy die hand van die kind en sê vir haar: Tal¡ta, koemi! wat, as dit vertaal word, beteken: Dogtertjie, Ek sê vir jou, staan op!

42 En die dogtertjie het dadelik opgestaan en begin rondloop, want sy was twaalf jaar oud. En hulle was uitermate verbaas.

43 En Hy het hulle met nadruk beveel dat niemand dit moes weet nie, en gesê dat daar vir haar iets te ete gegee moes word.

1 And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. 2 And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain; 4 because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him. 5 And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshipped him; 7 and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not. 8 For he said unto him, Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man. 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many. 10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 11 Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding. 12 And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 13 And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about two thousand; and they were drowned in the sea. 14 And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass. 15 And they come to Jesus, and behold him that was possessed with demons sitting, clothed and in his right mind, even him that had the legion: and they were afraid. 16 And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell him that was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine. 17 And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders. 18 And as he was entering into the boat, he that had been possessed with demons besought him that he might be with him. 19 And he suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go to thy house unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and how he had mercy on thee. 20 And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men marvelled.

21 And when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat unto the other side, a great multitude was gathered unto him; and he was by the sea. 22 And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and seeing him, he falleth at his feet, 23 and beseecheth him much, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death: I pray thee, that thou come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be made whole, and live. 24 And he went with him; and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him.

25 And a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 27 having heard the things concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I touch but his garments, I shall be made whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her plague. 30 And straightway Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power proceeding from him had gone forth, turned him about in the crowd, and said, Who touched my garments? 31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? 32 And he looked round about to see her that 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 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

35 While he yet spake, they come from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Teacher any further? 36 But Jesus, not heeding the word spoken, saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not, only believe. 37 And he suffered no man to follow with him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. 38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he beholdeth a tumult, and many weeping and wailing greatly. 39 And when he was entered in, he saith unto them, Why make ye a tumult, and weep? the child is not dead, but sleepeth. 40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was. 41 And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise. 42 And straightway the damsel rose up, and walked; for she was twelve years old. And they were amazed straightway with a great amazement. 43 And he charged them much that no man should know this: and he commanded that something should be given her to eat.