New Testament in a Year

The Healing of the Gadarene Demoniac^(A)

²⁶ They sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is across from Galilee. ²⁷ When He stepped out on land, a man from the city who had demons for a long time met Him. He wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. ²⁸ When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, “What have You to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I plead with You, do not torment me.” ²⁹ For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It often had seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles. But he broke the shackles and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.

³⁰ Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

He said, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him. ³¹ And they begged Him not to command them to go out into the abyss.

³² There was a large herd of swine feeding on the mountain. They begged Him to permit them to enter them, and He permitted them. ³³ Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

³⁴ When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the city and in the country. ³⁵ Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind. And they were afraid. ³⁶ Those who had seen it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed. ³⁷ Then the whole crowd from the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So He went into the boat and returned.

³⁸ Now the man from whom the demons had departed asked Him if he could stay with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹ “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” So he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

Jairus’ Daughter and the Woman Who Touched Jesus’ Garment^(B)

⁴⁰ When Jesus returned, the crowd gladly received Him, for they were all waiting for Him. ⁴¹ Then a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue, came and fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged Him to come to his house, ⁴² for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying.

As He went, the people crowded Him. ⁴³ And a woman having a hemorrhage for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, but could not be healed by anyone, ⁴⁴ came behind Him, and touched the fringe of His garment. And immediately her hemorrhage dried up.

⁴⁵ Jesus said, “Who touched Me?”

When everyone denied it, Peter and those who were with Him said, “Master, the crowds are pressing against You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’ ”

⁴⁶ But Jesus said, “Someone touched Me, for I perceive that power has gone out from Me.”

⁴⁷ When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling. And falling down before Him, she declared to Him before all the people why she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately. ⁴⁸ Then He said to her, “Daughter, be of good cheer. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

⁴⁹ While He was still speaking, someone from the synagogue ruler’s house came, saying to Jairus, “Your daughter is dead. Do not trouble the Teacher.”

⁵⁰ But when Jesus heard it, He answered him, “Do not fear. Only believe, and she will be made well.”

⁵¹ When He came into the house, He permitted no one to go in except Peter, John and James, and the father and mother of the girl. ⁵² All wept and mourned for her. But He said, “Do not weep. She is not dead but sleeping.”

⁵³ They laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead. ⁵⁴ But He put them all outside and took her by the hand and called, saying, “Little girl, arise.” ⁵⁵ Her spirit returned, and she arose immediately. And He told them to give her food. ⁵⁶ Her parents were astonished, but He commanded them to tell no one what had happened.