1 They came to the other side of the sea, into the region of the Gadarenes.
2 As soon as he had 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 was able to bind him, not even with chains,
4 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he had pulled the chains apart and smashed the shackles, and no one had the strength to subdue him.
5 Night and day, constantly, he was in the mountains and among the tombs, shrieking and gashing himself with stones.
6 Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him,
7 and shouting with a loud voice he said, "What business do I have with you, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I charge you by God, do not torment me!"
8 For he had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, unclean spirit!"
9 He asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Legion, because we are many."
10 And he pleaded with him again and again not to send them out of the region.
11 A large herd of pigs was grazing there on the mountainside.
12 All the demons pleaded with him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, so that we may go into them."
13 Jesus immediately allowed them. The unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd, about two thousand of them, stampeded down the cliff into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
14 Those tending the pigs ran away and reported it in the town and in the countryside. People came out to see what had happened.
15 They came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
16 Those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs.
17 Then they began to urge him to leave their territory.
18 As he was stepping into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed pleaded with him to let him stay with him.
19 But Jesus would not allow him; instead he said to him, "Go home to your own people and report to them how much the Lord has done for you and how he has shown you mercy."
20 So he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone was amazed.
21 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea.
22 Then one of the synagogue rulers came, named Jairus; and seeing him, he fell at his feet
23 and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, "My little daughter is near the end. Come and place your hands on her, so that she may be restored, and she will live."
24 He went off with him, and a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him.
25 And a woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years,
26 who had suffered a great deal under many doctors and had spent everything she had without being helped at all, but instead had grown worse,
27 having heard about Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak.
28 For she kept saying, "If I touch even his clothes, I will be restored."
29 At once the source of her bleeding dried up, and she sensed in her body that she had been cured of her affliction.
30 Jesus, recognizing at once within himself that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"
31 His disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing in on you, and you ask, 'Who touched me?'"
32 But he kept looking around to see the woman who had done this.
33 Then the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down in front of him and told him the whole truth.
34 He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has restored you. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction."
35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house and said, "Your daughter has died. Why bother the Teacher any longer?"
36 As soon as Jesus heard what was said, he told the synagogue ruler, "Do not be afraid; just believe."
37 He let no one go along with him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.
38 He came to the synagogue ruler's house and saw an uproar, and people weeping and wailing loudly.
39 Going in, he said to them, "Why are you making an uproar and weeping? The child has not died; she is asleep."
40 And they ridiculed him. But he put them all outside, took along the child's father and mother and those with him, and went in where the child was lying.
41 Taking hold of the child's hand, he said to her, "Talitha, cumi," which translated means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up."
42 At once the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And they were utterly overwhelmed with amazement.
43 He gave them strict orders that no one should find out about this, and he told them to give her something to eat.