1 Chegaram ao outro lado do mar, ao território dos gerasenos.2 Quando Jesus desembarcou, veio logo ao seu encontro dos túmulos um homem possesso de espírito imundo,3 o qual tinha ali a sua morada, e nem mesmo com cadeias podia já alguém segurá-lo;4 porque tendo sido muitas vezes seguro com grilhões e cadeias, tinha quebrado as cadeias e despedaçado os grilhões, e ninguém tinha força para o subjugar;5 e sempre, de dia e de noite, gritava nos túmulos e nos montes, ferindo-se com pedras.6 Vendo de longe a Jesus, correu para ele e adorou-o,7 gritando em alta voz: Que tenho eu contigo, Jesus, Filho do Deus Altíssimo? Por Deus te conjuro que não me atormentes.8 Pois Jesus lhe dissera: Espírito imundo, sai desse homem.9 Perguntou-lhe: Qual é o teu nome? Respondeu ele: Legião é o meu nome, porque somos muitos.10 E rogava a Jesus com instância que os não mandasse para fora do território.11 Pastava ali pelo monte uma grande manada de porcos;12 e os espíritos imundos suplicaram-lhe, dizendo: Envia-nos para os porcos, a fim de que entremos neles.13 Ele o permitiu. Eles, saindo, entraram nos porcos; a manada, que era cerca de dois mil, precipitou-se pelo declive no mar; e ali se afogaram.14 Os pastores fugiram e foram dar notícia disto na cidade e nos campos; e muitos foram ver o que tinha acontecido.15 Chegando-se a Jesus, viram o endemoninhado que havia tido a legião, sentado, vestido e em perfeito juízo; e ficaram com medo.16 Os que presenciaram o fato, contaram-lhes o que havia acontecido ao endemoninhado e aos porcos.17 Começaram a rogar-lhe que se retirasse daqueles termos.18 Ao entrar ele na barca, aquele que fora endemoninhado rogou-lhe que o deixasse estar com ele.19 Jesus não o permitiu, mas disse-lhe: Vai para tua casa, para teus parentes e conta-lhes tudo o que o Senhor te fez e como teve compaixão de ti.20 Retirando-se, começou a publicar em Decápolis tudo o que lhe havia feito Jesus; e todos ficaram maravilhados.21 Tendo Jesus voltado na barca para o outro lado, afluiu para ele uma grande multidão; e ele estava à beira do mar.22 Chegou-se a ele um dos chefes da sinagoga, chamado Jairo; vendo-o, lançou-se-lhe aos pés23 e rogou-lhe com instância, dizendo: Minha filhinha está a expirar; suplico-te que venhas pôr as mãos sobre ela, para que sare e viva.24 Jesus foi com ele, e uma grande multidão, seguindo-o, o apertava.25 Ora uma mulher, que durante doze anos padecia de uma hemorragia,26 e que tinha sofrido bastante às mãos de muitos médicos e gastado tudo quanto possuía, sem nada aproveitar, antes ficando cada vez pior,27 tendo ouvido falar a respeito de Jesus, veio por detrás entre a multidão e tocou-lhe a capa;28 porque dizia: Se eu tocar somente as suas vestes, ficarei curada.29 No mesmo instante cessou a sua hemorragia, e sentiu no seu corpo que estava curada do seu flagelo.30 Jesus, conhecendo logo por si mesmo a virtude que dele saíra, virando-se no meio da multidão, perguntou: Quem tocou as minhas vestes?31 Responderam-lhe seus discípulos: Vês que a multidão te aperta, e perguntas: Quem me tocou?32 Mas ele olhava ao redor para ver a que isto fizera.33 A mulher, receiosa e trêmula, cônscia do que nela se havia operado, veio, prostrou-se diante dele e declarou-lhe toda a verdade.34 Jesus disse-lhe: Filha, a tua fé te curou; vai-te em paz, e fica livre do teu mal.35 Ele ainda falava, quando vieram pessoas da casa do chefe da sinagoga, dizendo a este: Tua filha já morreu; por que incomodas mais o Mestre?36 Jesus, sem atender a estas palavras, disse ao chefe da sinagoga: Não temas, crê somente.37 Não permitiu que ninguém o acompanhasse, senão Pedro, Tiago e João, irmão de Tiago.38 Tendo eles chegado à casa do chefe da sinagoga, viu Jesus um alvoroço e os que choravam e faziam grande pranto;39 e tendo entrado, disse-lhes: Por que fazeis alvoroço e chorais? a menina não está morta, mas sim dormindo.40 Riam-se dele. Tendo, porém, feito sair a todos, ele tomou consigo o pai e a mãe da menina e os que com ele vieram, e entrou onde estava a menina.41 Tomando-a pela mão, disse-lhe: Talita cumi, que quer dizer, Menina, eu te digo, levanta-te.42 Imediatamente ela se levantou e começou a andar; pois tinha doze anos. Então eles ficaram sobremaneira admirados.43 Jesus recomendou-lhes expressamente que ninguém o soubesse, e mandou que lhe dessem a ela de comer.

1 And they came over the strait of the sea into the country of the Gerasens.2 And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the monuments a man with an unclean spirit,3 Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.4 For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.5 And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.6 And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him.7 And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou torment me not.8 For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.9 And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.10 And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.11 And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.12 And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.13 And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea.14 And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the fields. And they went out to see what was done:15 And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.16 And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine.17 And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts.18 And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him.19 And he admitted him not, but saith to him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath 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 wondered.21 And when Jesus had passed again in the ship over the strait, a great multitude assembled together unto him, and he was nigh unto the sea.22 And there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus: and seeing him, falleth down at his feet.23 And he besought him much, saying: My daughter is at the point of death, come, lay thy hand upon her, that she may be safe, and may live.24 And he went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they thronged him.25 And a woman who was under an issue of blood twelve years,26 And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse,27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the crowd behind him, and touched his garment.28 For she said: If I shall touch but his garment, I shall be whole.29 And forthwith the fountain of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of the evil.30 And immediately Jesus knowing in himself the virtue that had proceeded from him, turning to the multitude, said: Who hath touched my garments?31 And his disciples said to him: Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou who hath touched me?32 And he looked about to see her who had done this.33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.34 And he said to her: Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole: go in peace, and be thou whole of thy disease.35 While he was yet speaking, some come from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying: Thy daughter is dead: why dost thou trouble the master any further?36 But Jesus having heard the word that was spoken, saith to the ruler of the synagogue: Fear not, only believe.37 And he admitted not any man to follow him, but Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much.39 And going in, he saith to them: Why make you this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.41 And taking the damsel by the hand, he saith to her: Talitha cumi, which is, being interpreted: Damsel (I say to thee) arise.42 And immediately the damsel rose up, and walked: and she was twelve years old: and they were astonished with a great astonishment.43 And he charged them strictly that no man should know it: and commanded that something should be given her to eat.