Markos 4-6

Orthodox Jewish Bible

4 And again Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach began to say shiurim (Torah talks) beside the lake. And a huge multitude gathered together to him so that he got into a sirah (boat) on the lake and sat down. The whole multitude was by the lake on the shore.

² And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was giving them torah with many meshalim (parables) and in the shiurim he said, he was saying to them:

³ Listen. Hinei! The Sower went out to sow (seeds).

⁴ And it came about that when he went to sow, that some [seeds] fell beside the road. And the birds came and devoured it.

⁵ And other [seeds] fell upon the rocky places where it did not have much soil, and ofen ort (immediately) it sprang up because it did not have depth of soil.

⁶ And when the shemesh rose, it was scorched and, because it did not have a shoresh (root), it withered.

⁷ And other seed fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them, and it did not yield pri.

⁸ And other seed fell into the adamah tovah (good ground) and it was giving pri (fruit), rising up and growing, thirty, sixty, and one hundredfold.

⁹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

¹⁰ And when he was alone, the Shneym Asar were asking him for a hezber (explanation) of the meshalim (parables).

¹¹ And he was saying to them, To you the raz (secret) of the Malchut Hashem has been given. But to the outsiders, everything remains in meshalim,

¹² In order that YIRU they may see and not have daas VSHIMU they may hear and not have binah, lest they should turn and they should receive refuah and selicha. (YESHAYAH 6:9-10, TARGUM HASHIVIM)

¹³ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Do you not have daas of the meaning of this mashal? Then how will you have binah of all the meshalim?

¹⁴ The one sowing sows the dvar Hashem.

¹⁵ And these are the ones beside the road where the dvar Hashem is sown. And when they hear it, ofen ort Hasatan comes and takes the dvar that has been sown in them.

¹⁶ And these are the ones sown upon the rocky places: when they hear the dvar, ofen ort with simcha they receive it.

¹⁷ Yet they do not have a shoresh (root) in themselves but are transitory; then when ES TZARAH comes or redifah (persecution) on account of the dvar, ofen ort they fall away, they become shmad. [YIRMEYAH 30:7; Mattityahu 24:21-22]

¹⁸ And others are the ones sown among thorns. These are the ones having heard the dvar,

¹⁹ and the worries of the Olam Hazeh and the seduction of ashires (riches) and the desires for other things come in and choke the dvar Hashem and it does not bear pri.

²⁰ And these are the ones sown upon adamah tovah: they hear the dvar Hashem and are mekabel (receive) the dvar Hashem and bear pri, thirty, sixty and one hundredfold.

²¹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Surely a menorah is not brought out in order that it may be put under a measuring bucket or under the couch? Rather, is it not brought out that it may be placed on the shulchan?

²² For there is not [anything] nistar except that it may be made nikar nor has it become concealed but that it may come into [the] open. [YIRMEYAH 16:17]

²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.

²⁴ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, Pay attention! By what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

²⁵ For whoever has, it will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

²⁶ And he was saying, Thus is the Malchut Hashem: like a man who casts seed upon the soil,

²⁷ And goes to sleep blailah (at night) and arises byom (at day), and the seed sprouts up and grows in such a way that he does not have daas of how it does so.

²⁸ On its own, the soil bears pri: first the blade, then a head of grain, then full wheat in the head.

²⁹ But when the crop is ripe, ofen ort (immediately) he puts forth the MAGGAL, KI VASHAL KATZIR (sickle, for the harvest is ripe. [YOEL 3:13]

³⁰ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying, To what should we compare the Malchut Hashem or by what mashal (parable) may we present it?

³¹ The Malchut Hashem is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the soil, is smaller [than] all the seeds on the earth:

³² But when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater [than] all the plants of the garden and puts forth large branches, so that the OPH HASHOMAYIM can nest under its shade.

³³ And with many such meshalim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshich was speaking to them the dvar Hashem as they were able to hear.

³⁴ But apart from meshalim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was not speaking to them. Only privately, in a yechidus, was Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach explaining everything to his own talmidim.

³⁵ And on that day, when erev had come, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake.

³⁶ And leaving the multitude, they took Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, just as he was, in the sirah (boat), and other sirot (boats) were with him.

³⁷ And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were beating against the sirah (boat), so that it was already filling up.

³⁸ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was in the stern on the cushion sleeping, and they woke him up, and they say to him, Rebbe, does it not matter to you that we are perishing?

³⁹ And having been awakened, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach rebuked the wind, and he spoke to the lake, Sha! Be still! And there was a great calm.

⁴⁰ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Why do you have morech lev (cowardliness)? Do you still not have emunah?

⁴¹ And they were afraid with a terrible pachad (terror), and they were saying to one another, Who then is this that even the wind and the sea obey him?

5 And they came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes.

² And as soon as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach stepped out of the sirah (boat), ofen ort (immediately), a man with a ruach hatumah from the kevarim (tombs) of the burial caves met him.

³ This man had (his) dwelling among the kevarim. And no one could keep him tied any longer, even with sharsherot (chains, fetters);

⁴ Because often he had been bound with shackles and the shackles had been torn apart by him, and no one had the koach (power) to subdue him.

⁵ And constantly, yomam valailah (day and night), among the kevarim and in the mountains, he was crying out and beating himself with stones.

⁶ And, having seen Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach from afar, he ran and fell down before him.

⁷ And having cried out with a kol gadol (loud voice), he says, Mah lanu valach, Yehoshua, Ben HaElohim HaElyon? I implore you by Hashem, [do] not torment me.

⁸ For Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had been saying to him, Come out of the man, ruach hatumah (unclean spirit)!

⁹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was questioning him, saying, What is your name? And he says to him, Legion [is] my name, for we are many!

¹⁰ And he begged Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach again and again not to exorcise him and banish him from that place.

¹¹ Now there was a large herd of chazirim feeding nearby on the hillside.

¹² And they (the ruchot hatemeiot, the shedim) implored Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Send us into the chazirim, so that we may go into them.

¹³ And he permitted them. And having come out, the ruchot hatemeiot entered into the chazirim. And the herd of chazirim rushed down the slope into the lake, and there were about two thousand of them, and they were drowned in the lake. [MICHOH 7:19]

¹⁴ And the herdsmen feeding them fled and reported it in the village and in the sadot (fields), and the people came to see what had come to pass.

¹⁵ And they come to Yehoshua, and they see the one that had been possessed by the shed sitting, clothed and in his right mind the very one having had the Legion! And they were afraid.

¹⁶ And the edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) of what had happened to the man possessed by shedim and of what had happened to the chazirim reported it.

¹⁷ Then they began to implore Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach to depart from their region.

¹⁸ And as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was stepping into the sirah (boat), the one who had been possessed by shedim was imploring him that he might accompany him.

¹⁹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not permit him, but says to him, Go home to your people and report to them everything that Hashem has done for you and [that] Hashem had rachmanim (mercy) upon you.

²⁰ And the man left and began to preach in the Decapolis everything that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach had done for him, and everyone was amazed.

²¹ And when he had crossed over again in the sirah (boat) to the other side, a large multitude gathered together to him, and he was beside the lake.

²² And one of the Roshei Beit HaKnesset comes name of Yair and, having seen Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, he falls down at his feet,

²³ and he begs him earnestly saying, Biti (my daughter) is at the point of mavet. Come and put your hand on her that she may receive refuah and may live.

²⁴ And Moshiach went with Yair. And a large multitude were following him and they were pressing against Moshiach.

²⁵ And [there was] an isha having a flow of dahm for twelve years. [VAYIKRA 15:25-30]

²⁶ And having suffered much by many rofim (physicians) and having spent everything she had, instead of recovering, her condition deteriorated.

²⁷ And having heard about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, she came up behind him in the multitude, and touched his garment.

²⁸ For she was saying, If I may touch even the garment of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, I will receive refuah.

²⁹ And ofen ort the flow of her dahm was dried up and she felt in (her) basar that she has been given refuah from the shrekliche (terrible) machla (illness).

³⁰ And ofen ort Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having perceived within himself that gevurah (miraculous power) had gone forth from him, turned around in the crowd and said, Who touched my garments?

³¹ And the talmidim of Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach were saying to him, You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, Who touched me?

³² And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was looking around to see the one having done this.

³³ Now the isha, BYIRAH (with fear) and BIRADAH (trembling), aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the emes (truth).

³⁴ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, Bat (Daughter), your emunah has brought you refuah (healing). Go in shalom and receive refuah from your machla.

³⁵ While Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was still speaking, some came from the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, saying, Your yaldah is a nifteret (deceased person); are you still causing a shter (bother) for the rabbi?

³⁶ But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having overheard what was being spoken, says to the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, Do not be afraid; only have emunah.

³⁷ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach did not permit anyone to follow after him, except Kefa and Yaakov and Yochanan, the brother of Yaakov.

³⁸ And they come into the bais of the Rosh Beit HaKnesset, and Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach beheld much commotion and weeping and loud wailing.

³⁹ And having entered, he says to them, Why are you distressed and weeping? The yaldah is not a nifteret but is only sleeping.

⁴⁰ And they began making leitzonus (mockery, fun) of him. But having put everyone out, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach takes the Abba of the naarah (girl) and the Em and the ones with him, and goes into where the naarah was.

⁴¹ And having grasped the hand of the naarah, Moshiach says to her, Talitha Koum, which, being translated, means Little girl, to you I say, arise!

⁴² And ofen ort the naarah got up and she was walking around. She was twelve years old. And ofen ort they were amazed with great wonder.

⁴³ And he gave orders to them earnestly that no one should have daas of this. And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to give her some okhel (food).

6 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach came out from there and comes into his shtetl and his talmidim follow him.

² And Shabbos having come, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach began to say shiurim in the shul, and many, listening, were amazed, saying, From where [did] this one get lernen (Torah learning), and what [is] the chochmah (wisdom) that has been given to this one? And what gevurot (mighty deeds) are being done by his hands?

³ Is not this one the Naggar (Carpenter), Ben Miryam? The brother of Yaakov*, Yosef, Yehuda and Shimon? And, are not his achayot here with us? And they were taking offense at Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

⁴ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying to them, A navi is not without his kavod, except in his own shtetl and among his own mishpochah and in his own bais.

⁵ And he was not able there to do many nissim (miracles), except on a few cholim (sick people) he laid (his) hands and administered refuah (healing) to them.

⁶ And he wondered on account of their lack of emunah. And he was going around the shtetlach in a circuit, saying shiurim.

⁷ And Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach summons the Shneym Asar, and he began to send them out two by two, and he was giving to them samchut [over] the ruchot hatumah. [DEVARIM 17:6]

⁸ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach gave directives to them that they should take nothing on [the] derech except a mere walking stick, not lechem, not a schnorrer’s sack, nor a money belt;

⁹ But instead, to wear sandals, and not to take an extra kaftan.

¹⁰ And he was saying to them, Wherever you enter into a bais, stay there until you leave that area.

¹¹ And whatever place does not give you the kabbalat panim (welcome), and does not listen to you, then, as you are leaving there, let it be NIER CHATZNO, shake off the dust of your feet, for an edut to them.

¹² And having gone out, they preached that Bnei Adam should make teshuva.

¹³ And many shedim they were casting out, and they were anointing with shemen many cholim, and they were administering refuah to them.

¹⁴ And Herod the king heard of it, for the name of Yehoshua had become bavust (famous), and some were saying, Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva has been made to stand up alive from [the] mesim, and for this reason the nissim (miracles) are at work in him.

¹⁵ But others were saying, It is Eliyahu HaNavi. Still others were saying, He is a navi, like one of the neviim of old. [MALACHI 4:5]

¹⁶ But when Herod heard of it, he kept saying, Yochanan whom I beheaded has stood up alive from the mesim!

¹⁷ For Herod himself had sent and had Yochanan arrested and bound in the beis hasohar, on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother, Philip, for he had married her.

¹⁸ But Yochanan was saying to Herod, It is not mutar according to the Torah for you to have your brother’s wife. [VAYIKRA 18:16, 20:21]

¹⁹ And Herodias bore a grudge against Yochanan and desired to kill him. But she could not.

²⁰ For Herod feared Yochanan, knowing him [to be] a tzaddik and kadosh, and Herod was protecting Yochanan. And when Herod heard Yochanan, he was greatly disturbed, and [yet] gladly Herod was listening to Yochanan.

²¹ And, an opportune day having come, when Herod, on his yom huledet (birthday), gave a mishteh for the court of his nobles, and the military commanders, and those of chashivut (prominence) of the Galil, [ESTHER 1:3, 2:18]

²² And when his daughter entered and danced, she pleased Herod and the ones reclining at the seudah with him. And the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you wish and I will give [it] to you.

²³ And he made a shevuah (oath) to her solemnly, Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my Malchut. [ESTHER 5:3,6; 7:2]

²⁴ And having gone out, she said to her mother, What should I ask [for]? And her mother said, The rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.

²⁵ And having entered, ofen ort, with haste before the king, she made a request, saying, You may give to me upon a platter the rosh Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva.

²⁶ And having become very sad, the king, on account of his shevuah and on account of the ones reclining at the seudah [with him], was unwilling to refuse her.

²⁷ And, ofen ort, the king sent an executioner and commanded him to bring the rosh Yochanan. And having left, the executioner beheaded Yochanan of the tevilah of teshuva in the beit hasohar.

²⁸ And he brought the rosh Yochanan upon a platter and gave it to the young girl, and the young girl gave it to her mother.

²⁹ And, having heard this, Yochanan’s talmidim came and carried away his geviyah (body) and placed it in a kever (grave).

³⁰ And the Shlichim gathered together with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and reported to him everything which they did and the torah which they had taught.

³¹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Come away a while, you yourselves, for a yechidus in a quiet place for a Shabbaton (rest from work). For there were many coming and going, and they did not even have time for okhel (food).

³² And they departed in the sirah (boat) to a secluded place for a yechidus.

³³ And the people, recognizing them, saw them departing, and from all the shtetlach they ran there and arrived ahead of them.

³⁴ And having gotten out of the sirah (boat), Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw a large multitude and he had rachmei shomayim (heavenly mercy) on them, for they were KATSON ASHER AIN LAHEM ROEH (like sheep without a shepherd), and he began with his torah to teach them many things. (BAMIDBAR 27:17; MELACHIM ALEF 22:17; DIVREY HAYAMIM BAIS 18:16; YECHEZKEL 34:8)

³⁵ And when it was already a late hour, his talmidim came up to him and were saying, This place is desolate and already [it is] late.

³⁶ Send them away, that, having departed to the surrounding farms and shtetlach, they may buy for themselves okhel (food) they may eat.

³⁷ But in reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You yourselves give them [something] to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and spend two hundred denarii for lechem and give to them to eat? [MELACHIM BAIS 4:42-44]

³⁸ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, How much lechem do you have? Go [and] see. And knowing, the talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach say, Chamesh (five), and dagim, shenayim (two).

³⁹ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach commanded them to recline at tish, as it were, everyone group by group, on the green grass.

⁴⁰ And they reclined, group by group, in hundreds and in fifties.

⁴¹ And, having taken the chamesh loaves and the shnei hadagim (two fish) and looking up to Shomayim, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said a bracha. And having offered the betziat halechem, Moshiach was giving to his talmidim in order that they might set them before the people. And Moshiach divided the shnei hadagim (two fish) among them all.

⁴² And everyone ate, and they were satisfied.

⁴³ And they picked up shirayim (Rebbe’s remainders), shneym asar (twelve) baskets full, and from the dagim.

⁴⁴ And those who had eaten the loaves numbered chamesh elafim (five thousand).

⁴⁵ And ofen ort Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach compelled his talmidim to embark into the sirah (boat) and to go before [him] to the other side to Beit-Tzaidah, while he dismisses the multitude.

⁴⁶ And with a Shalom farewell to them, Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach departed to the mountain to daven.

⁴⁷ And erev having come, the sirah (boat) was in [the] middle of the lake, and Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was alone on shore.

⁴⁸ And having seen them laboring at the oars, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of halailah, he comes to them, walking on the lake. And he wanted to go by them.

⁴⁹ But having seen him on the lake, they thought that it is a ruach refaim (an apparition). And they cried out;

⁵⁰ For everyone saw him. And ofen ort he spoke with them, and they were filled with pachad (terror). Moshiach says to them, Chazak! (Be strong!) Ani hu. (I am He) Do not be afraid.

⁵¹ And he got into the sirah (boat) with them. And the wind died down. And in themselves they were exceedingly amazed.

⁵² For they did not have binah concerning the loaves [See 6:43], but their levavot (hearts) had been hardened.

⁵³ And having crossed over onto the land, they came to Gennesaret and anchored.

⁵⁴ And when they disembark from the sirah (boat), the people ofen ort recognized Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

⁵⁵ And the people rushed everywhere in that region, and they began carrying about on their mats cholim where they heard he was.

⁵⁶ And wherever Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was entering into the shtetlach or into towns or into the countryside, thy laid the cholim in the marketplaces, entreating him that they might just touch Moshiach’s tzitzit. And as many as touched it were receiving refuah (healing). [BAMIDBAR 15:38-41; DEVARIM 22:12]