马可福音 5
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
在格拉森驱赶污灵
5 他们来到湖[a]的对岸，进了格拉森[b]人的地方。 2 耶稣刚下船，就有一个被污灵附身的人，从墓地迎着他来。 3 这个人住在墓地里，没有人能捆住他，就是用铁链也不行。 4 他经常被脚镣和铁链捆起来，然而他总是挣断铁链、打碎脚镣。没有人能制伏他。 5 不管黑夜白昼，他常常在墓地和山上喊叫，又用石头砍自己。
6 他远远地看见耶稣，就跑过去，向他下拜， 7 大声喊叫说：“至高神的儿子耶稣，我与你有什么关系？我藉着神恳求你，不要折磨我！” 8 这是因为耶稣对他说：“你出来，污灵！离开这个人！”
9 耶稣问他：“你叫什么名字？”
他回答说：“我名叫‘军团’，因为我们众多。” 10 他一再央求耶稣不要把它们赶出那个地方。
11 当时，那里有一大群猪正在附近的山上吃食。 12 那些污灵[c]就央求耶稣，说：“求你打发我们到猪群里，好让我们进入猪里面去吧！” 13 耶稣[d]准许了它们，污灵就出来，进入猪里面。那群猪约有两千头，它们从山崖冲到湖里，在湖里淹死了。 14 那些放猪的人就逃跑了，去把这事传到城里城外。于是人们就来[e]看发生了什么事。 15 他们来到耶稣那里，看见那曾经有鬼魔附身的，就是被‘军团’所附的那个人，穿着衣服，神志清醒地坐着，他们就惧怕起来。 16 那些看见的人，把发生在有鬼魔附身的人身上和有关猪群的事，都告诉了大家。 17 他们就开始央求耶稣离开他们的地区。
18 耶稣上船的时候，那曾被鬼魔附身的人恳求他，要与他在一起。 19 耶稣没有答应，却对他说：“你回家去吧，到你的亲友那里，告诉他们主为你做了什么，以及他怎样怜悯你。” 20 于是那个人离开了，开始在德卡波利斯地区传扬耶稣为他做了什么样的事。众人都感到惊奇。
少女复活、妇人痊愈
21 耶稣又上船渡到对岸。有一大群人聚集到他那里，他就留在湖边。 22 这时候，来了一个名叫睚鲁的会堂主管。他一见到耶稣，就俯伏在耶稣脚前， 23 迫切地恳求他，说：“我的小女儿快要死了。求你来按手在她身上，好让她得救治，能活下去。”
24 耶稣就与他一起去，有一大群人跟随耶稣，并拥挤他。 25 有一个妇人，患了十二年的血漏病。 26 她在许多医生手里受了很多苦，花尽了她所有的一切，没有任何效果，反而倒变得更严重了。 27 她听说了耶稣的事，就夹在人群中，从后面摸了一下耶稣的衣服， 28 原来她想：“只要我摸到他的衣服，就会得救治。” 29 立刻，她的血漏就止住了，她也感觉到身体从病痛中痊愈了。
30 耶稣自己里面立刻知道有能力从他而出，就在人群中转过身来，问：“谁摸了我的衣服？”
31 他的门徒们对他说：“你看这群人拥挤着你，你还问‘谁摸了我’吗？”
32 可是耶稣环视周围，要知道是谁做了这事。 33 那妇人知道发生在自己身上的事，就惧怕起来，战战兢兢地上前俯伏在耶稣面前，把真实情况全告诉了他。 34 耶稣对她说：“女儿，你的信救了你，平平安安地去吧。你从病痛中痊愈了吧！”
35 耶稣还在说话的时候，有些人从会堂主管的家里来，对睚鲁[f]说：“你的女儿已经死了，何必再麻烦老师呢？”
36 耶稣却当做没听见他们所说的话，对会堂主管说[g]：“不要怕，只要信！” 37 然后他除了彼得、雅各和雅各的弟弟[h]约翰以外，不准别的人跟着。 38 他们来到会堂主管的家里，耶稣看见一片混乱，有人哭泣，有人哀号。 39 耶稣进去对他们说：“为什么慌乱哭泣呢？孩子不是死了，而是睡了。”
40 他们就讥笑耶稣。耶稣把他们都赶出去，只带着孩子的父母和一起来的人，进入孩子所在的地方[i]。 41 他握着孩子的手，对她说：“塔利达，库莫！[j]”——这翻译出来就是“小女孩，我吩咐你起来！” 42 那女孩随即起来，开始走动。她那时十二岁。大家立刻目瞪口呆，大为惊讶。 43 耶稣郑重地吩咐他们，不要让任何人知道这事，又吩咐给孩子吃东西。
Footnotes
- 马可福音 5:1 湖——原文直译“海”；指“加利利湖（海）”。
- 马可福音 5:1 格拉森——有古抄本作“格达拉”。
- 马可福音 5:12 那些污灵——原文直译“它们”；有古抄本作“所有的鬼魔”。
- 马可福音 5:13 有古抄本附“立刻”。
- 马可福音 5:14 来——有古抄本作“出来”。
- 马可福音 5:35 对睚鲁——辅助词语。
- 马可福音 5:36 耶稣却当做没听见他们所说的话，对……说——有古抄本作“耶稣听见他们所说的话，就立刻对……说”。
- 马可福音 5:37 弟弟——原文直译“兄弟”。
- 马可福音 5:40 孩子所在的地方——有古抄本作“孩子躺着的地方”。
- 马可福音 5:41 塔利达，库莫！——亚兰文词语的音译。
Mark 5
The Voice
For most of Jesus’ miracles, the disciples are observers: they watch Him healing the sick, raising dead bodies, and casting demons out of strangers. This time, however, it is the disciples—and even Jesus Himself—who are in danger. Maybe that’s why they are having such a hard time trusting that His power is greater than their situation.
They have seen Him cast out demons. They know He has powers that are not of natural origin. But they have never seen—or even heard of—anything like this. It’s one thing to heal human sickness or even to order demons around. But to order the waves and the wind? To command the sea and the storm? That’s a miracle of an entirely different order.
5 They traveled across the sea to the land of Gerasa[a] in Galilee. 2-3 When Jesus came ashore there, He was immediately met by a man who was tortured by an evil spirit. This man lived in the cemeteries, and no one could control him—not even those who tried to tie him up or chain him. 4 He had often been bound in chains, but his strength was so great that he could break the chains and tear the irons loose from his feet and hands. No one and nothing could subdue him. 5 Day and night, he lurked among the tombs or ran mad in the hills, and the darkness made him scream or cut himself with sharp-edged stones. 6 When this man saw Jesus coming in the distance, he ran to Him and fell to his knees in front of Him. 7-8 Jesus started commanding the unclean spirit.
Jesus: Come out of that man, you wicked spirit!
Unclean Spirit (shouting): What’s this all about, Jesus, Son of the Most High? In the name of God, I beg You—don’t torture me!
Jesus: 9 What is your name?
Unclean Spirit: They call me “Legion,” for there are thousands of us in this body.
10 And then Legion begged Jesus again to leave them alone, not to send them out of the country.
11 Since the Gerasenes were not Jews (who considered pigs to be unclean), there happened to be a large herd of swine, some 2,000 of them, feeding on the hill nearby.
Unclean Spirit (begging): 12 Send us into those pigs if You have to, so that we may enter into them.
13 Jesus granted the request. The darkness swept up out of the man and into the herd of pigs. And then they thundered down the hill into the water; and there they drowned, all 2,000 of them.
14 The swineherds ran away, telling everybody they met what had happened. Eventually a crowd of people came to see for themselves. 15 When they reached Jesus, they found the man Legion had afflicted sitting quietly, sane and fully clothed; when they saw this, they were overwhelmed with fear and wonder.
16 Those who had witnessed everything told the others what had happened: how Jesus had healed the man, how the pigs had rushed into the sea, and how they had destroyed themselves. 17 When they had heard the whole story, the Gerasenes turned to Jesus and begged Him to go away.
18 When Jesus climbed back into the boat, the cured demoniac asked if he could come and be with Him, but Jesus said no.
Jesus: 19 Stay here; I want you to go back home to your own people and let them see what the Lord has done—how He has had mercy on you.
20 So the man went away and began telling this news in the Ten Cities[b] region; wherever he went, people were amazed by what he told them.
This is the only time in the Gospels when Jesus seems to listen to the pleading of a demon or a demon-possessed person. The demons immediately acknowledge Jesus as all-powerful; the possessed man’s first reaction on seeing Jesus is to fall at His feet and call Him the “Son of the Most High.” Although we can’t know why Jesus listens to their pleading, the effect is clear: the people in that region see firsthand the power of evil and its ultimate destiny, namely, destruction.
Instead of being pleased that they are now free from the terror of the demon-possessed man, the people in the town ask Jesus to leave. After all, the local economy takes a pretty big hit when 2,000 of their choicest pigs rush into the sea.
21 After Jesus returned across the sea, a large crowd quickly found Him, so He stayed by the sea. 22 One of the leaders of the synagogue—a man named Jairus—came and fell at Jesus’ feet, 23 begging Him to heal his daughter.
Jairus: My daughter is dying, and she’s only 12 years old. Please come to my house. Just place Your hands on her. I know that if You do, she will live.
24 Jesus began traveling with Jairus toward his home.
In the crowd pressing around Jesus, 25 there was a woman who had suffered continuous bleeding for 12 years, bleeding that made her ritually unclean and an outcast according to the purity laws. 26 She had suffered greatly; and although she spent all her money on her medical care, she had only gotten worse. 27 She had heard of this Miracle-Man, Jesus, so she snuck up behind Him in the crowd and reached out her hand to touch His cloak.
Woman (to herself): 28 Even if all I touch are His clothes, I know I will be healed.
29 As soon as her fingers brushed His cloak, the bleeding stopped. She could feel that she was whole again.
30 Lots of people were pressed against Jesus at that moment, but He immediately felt her touch; He felt healing power flow out of Him.
He stopped. Everyone stopped. He looked around.
Jesus: Who just touched My robe?
31 His disciples broke the uneasy silence.
Disciples: Jesus, the crowd is so thick that everyone is touching You. Why do You ask, “Who touched Me?”
32 But Jesus waited. His gaze swept across the crowd to see who had done it. 33 At last, the woman—knowing He was talking about her—pushed forward and dropped to her knees. She was shaking with fear and amazement.
Woman: I touched You.
Then she told Him the reason why. 34 Jesus listened to her story.
Jesus: Daughter, you are well because you dared to believe. Go in peace, and stay well.
Jesus occasionally instigates His own miracles: He goes up to someone, such as a paralyzed man, and offers to heal him. More often, as in the case of Jairus’s daughter, people come to Jesus and ask for healings. But the woman in this story is unique because she receives her healing without asking for it—simply by touching Jesus in faith. He is surrounded by crowds pressing in on every side, but Jesus feels that one person’s touch is different, in a way that only He can perceive: one woman is touching Him deliberately, in hope and faith, knowing He has the power to heal her.
35 While He was speaking, some members of Jairus’s household pushed through the crowd.
Jairus’s Servants (to Jairus): Your daughter is dead. There’s no need to drag the Teacher any farther.
36 Jesus overheard their words. Then He turned to look at Jairus.
Jesus: It’s all right. Don’t be afraid; just believe.
37-38 Jesus asked everyone but Peter, James, and John (James’s brother) to remain outside when they reached Jairus’s home. Inside the synagogue leader’s house, the mourning had already begun; the weeping and wailing carried out into the street.
39 Jesus and His three disciples went inside.
Jesus: Why are you making all this sorrowful noise? The child isn’t dead. She’s just sleeping.
40 The mourners laughed a horrible, bitter laugh and went back to their wailing. Jesus cleared the house so that only His three disciples, Jairus, and Jairus’s wife were left inside with Him. They all went to where the child lay. 41 Then He took the child’s hand.
Jesus: Little girl, it’s time to wake up.
42 Immediately the 12-year-old girl opened her eyes, arose, and began to walk. Her parents could not believe their eyes.
Jesus (to the parents): 43 Don’t tell anybody what you’ve just seen. Why don’t you give her something to eat? I know she is hungry.
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