Old/New Testament
18 When Jesus saw the crowd all around him, he told them to go across to the other side of the lake. 19 A scribe came up and spoke to him.
“Teacher,” he said, “I will follow you wherever you go!”
20 “Foxes have their dens,” replied Jesus, “and the birds in the sky have their nests. But the son of man has nowhere he can lay his head.”
21 “Master,” said another of his disciples, “let me first go and see to my father’s funeral.”
22 “Follow me!” replied Jesus. “And leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
The calming of the storm
23 So Jesus got into the boat, and his disciples followed him. 24 All of a sudden a great storm blew up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves. Jesus, however, was asleep. 25 They came and woke him up.
“Help! Master! Rescue us!” they shouted. “We’re done for!”
26 “Why are you so scared, you little-faith lot?” he replied.
Then he got up and told the wind and the sea to behave themselves, and there was a great calm. 27 They were all astonished.
“What sort of man is this,” they said, “that the winds and the sea do what he says?”
The healing of the demoniacs
28 So he went across to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes. Two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs. They were very violent and made it impossible for anyone to go along that road.
29 “What is it with us and you, son of God?” they yelled. “Have you come here to torture us ahead of the time?”
30 Some way off from where they were there was a large herd of pigs feeding.
31 “If you cast us out,” the demons begged Jesus, “send us into the herd of pigs!”
32 “Off you go, then!” said Jesus.
So the demons went out of the men and into the pigs. Then and there the entire herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and were drowned in the water.
33 The herdsmen took to their heels. They went off to the town and told the whole tale, including the bit about the demon-possessed men. 34 So the whole town came out to see Jesus for themselves. When they saw him, they begged him to leave their district.
Scripture quotations from The New Testament for Everyone are copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011, 2018, 2019.