马可福音 5:1-20
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
治好被鬼附身的人
5 他们来到湖对岸的格拉森地区。 2 耶稣刚下船，就遇见一个被污鬼附身的人从坟场迎面而来。 3 那人以坟场为家，从来没有人能把他捆住，就算用铁链也锁不住他。 4 尽管有人多次用铁链和脚镣锁住他，但他挣断了铁链，砸碎了脚镣。没有人能制服他。 5 他昼夜在坟场和山野间大喊大叫，又用石头砍自己。
6 他远远看见耶稣，就跑过去跪下来拜祂，喊着说： 7 “至高上帝的儿子耶稣啊，我和你有什么关系？看在上帝的份上，求你不要折磨我！” 8 原来，耶稣已经对他身上的鬼说：“污鬼，从这人身上出来！”
9 耶稣问：“你叫什么名字？”
他说：“我的名字叫‘群’，因为我们是一大群。”
10 接着污鬼再三哀求耶稣，不要把它们逐出那个地区。 11 当时有一大群猪在附近山坡上觅食。 12 污鬼就哀求耶稣说：“让我们到猪群里去，附在它们身上吧！”
13 耶稣允许了，污鬼就离开那人，进入猪群。那群猪就一路奔下陡坡，冲进湖里淹死了，约有两千头。
14 放猪的人都吓跑了。他们把这消息传遍了城里乡间，于是人人都跑来看个究竟。 15 他们到了耶稣那里，看见那一度被群鬼附身的人神智清醒、衣着整齐地坐在那里，都很害怕。 16 目睹这件事的人向他们讲述整个经过。 17 他们请耶稣离开他们的地方。
18 耶稣上了船准备离开的时候，那被鬼附过的人恳求耶稣让他随行。 19 耶稣没有答应，只对他说：“回去见你的家人，将主为你所做的事和祂怜悯你的经过告诉他们吧！”
20 这人就回到低加坡里一带宣扬耶稣为他所行的奇事，大家都很惊奇。
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Mark 5:1-20
Contemporary English Version
A Man with Evil Spirits
(Matthew 8.28-34; Luke 8.26-39)
5 Jesus and his disciples crossed Lake Galilee and came to shore near the town of Gerasa.[a] 2 When he was getting out of the boat, a man with an evil spirit quickly ran to him 3 from the graveyard[b] where he had been living. No one was able to tie the man up anymore, not even with a chain. 4 He had often been put in chains and leg irons, but he broke the chains and smashed the leg irons. No one could control him. 5 Night and day he was in the graveyard or on the hills, yelling and cutting himself with stones.
6 When the man saw Jesus in the distance, he ran up to him and knelt down. 7 He shouted, “Jesus, Son of God in heaven, what do you want with me? Promise me in God's name that you won't torture me!” 8 The man said this because Jesus had already told the evil spirit to come out of him.
9 Jesus asked, “What is your name?”
The man answered, “My name is Lots, because I have ‘lots’ of evil spirits.” 10 He then begged Jesus not to send them away.
11 Over on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. 12 So the evil spirits begged Jesus, “Send us into those pigs! Let us go into them.” 13 Jesus let them go, and they went out of the man and into the pigs. The whole herd of about 2,000 pigs rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.
14 The men taking care of the pigs ran to the town and the farms to spread the news. Then the people came out to see what had happened. 15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had once been full of demons. He was sitting there with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were terrified.
16 Everyone who had seen what had happened told about the man and the pigs. 17 Then the people started begging Jesus to leave their part of the country.
18 When Jesus was getting into the boat, the man begged to go with him. 19 But Jesus would not let him. Instead, he said, “Go home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how good he has been to you.”
20 The man went away into the region near the ten cities known as Decapolis[c] and began telling everyone how much Jesus had done for him. Everyone who heard what had happened was amazed.
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