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 They arrived at the other side of the sea in the territory of the Gerasenes.2 Just as Jesus stepped out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him.3 He lived among the tombs, and no one could restrain him any longer, not even with a chain.4 He had often been restrained with shackles and chains but had snapped the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one could tame him.5 Night and day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the mountainsides and kept cutting himself with stones.6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell down in front of him,7 screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I command you in the name of God not to torture me!"8 For Jesus had been saying to him,"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"9 Then Jesus asked him,"What's your name?"He said to him, "My name is Legion, because there are many of us."10 He kept pleading with Jesus not to send them out of the territory.11 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing on a hillside nearby.12 So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"13 So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down the cliff into the sea and drowned there.14 Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.15 When they came to Jesus and saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there dressed and in his right mind, they were frightened.16 The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.17 So they began to beg Jesus to leave their territory.18 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging him to let him go with him.19 But Jesus wouldn't let him. Instead, he told him,"Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you."20 So the man left and began proclaiming in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was utterly amazed.21 When Jesus again had crossed to the other side in a boat, a large crowd gathered around him by the seashore.22 Then a synagogue leader named Jairus arrived. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet23 and begged him urgently, saying, "My little daughter is dying. Come and lay your hands on her so that she may get well and live."24 So Jesus went with him. A huge crowd kept following him and jostling him.25 Now there was a woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years.26 Although she had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all of her money, she had not been helped at all but rather grew worse.27 Since she had heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his robe.28 For she had been saying, "If I can just touch his robe, I will get well."29 Her bleeding stopped at once, and she felt in her body that she was healed from her illness.30 Immediately Jesus became aware that power had gone out of him. So he turned around in the crowd and asked,"Who touched my clothes?"31 His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd jostling you, and yet you ask,‘Who touched me?’"32 But he kept looking around to see the woman who had done this.33 So the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth.34 He said to her,"Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be healed from your illness."35 While he was still speaking, some people came from the synagogue leader's home and said, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?"36 But when Jesus heard what they said, he told the synagogue leader,"Stop being afraid! Just keep on believing."37 Jesus allowed no one to go further with him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.38 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw mass confusion. People were crying and sobbing loudly.39 He entered the house and said to them,"Why all this confusion and crying? The child isn't dead but is sleeping."40 They laughed and laughed at him. But he forced all of them outside. Then he took the child's father and mother, along with the men who were with him, and went into the room where the child was.41 He took her by the hand and said to her,"Talitha koum," which means,"Little girl, I tell you, get up!"42 The little girl got up at once and started to walk, for she was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.43 But Jesus strictly ordered them not to let anyone know about this. He also told them to give her something to eat.