Márquwç 5

At the Land of the Girgâshíy

1. And they came to the other side of the sea, into the land of the Girgâshíy. 2. And immediately at His exiting out of the ship, a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit encountered Him, 3. Who had his dwelling among the tombs, and not anyone, even with chains, was able to bind him, 4. Because he had been bound often with fetters and chains, but he had torn the chains apart, and had broken the fetters, so no one was able to subdue him. 5. And continually night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, screaming and wounding himself with stones. 6. Yet, when he saw Yâhuwshúa from afar, he ran and prostrated himself in reverence to Him, 7. And screaming with a loud voice, he said: "Whatever is mine is also Yours, Yâhuwshúa, Son of ’Ël Elyówn! Are You come here to torment us before the season? [MattithYâ´huw 8:29] I adjure You by the Mighty Being, do not torment me!" 8. For He was saying to him (the unclean spirit): "Exit from the man." 9. And He asked him: "What is your name?" And he responded, saying: "Legion is our name, because we are many." 10. And those gods (evil spirits) implored Him much in order that He would not send them out of the earth; 11. And there was there, before the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding. 12. And all those gods implored Him, saying: "Send us into those swine, in order that we may enter into them!" 13. And He allowed them. And having gone out, the unclean spirits entered into the swine, but the herd rushed down the cliff into the sea (and they were about two thousand), and they were drowned in the sea. 14. And those who fed the swine fled and announced it at the city and in the country, and they went out to see what it was that had happened. 15. So they came towards Yâhuwshúa, and saw the one from whom He had cast out the gods – him who had the Legion – sitting and clothed and being of sound mind, and they were afraid... 16. And those who had seen it declared to them how it had happened to the one possessed by gods, and also concerning the swine. 17. And they began to implore Him to depart from their borders. 18. And He, having entered into the ship, he who had been possessed by gods implored Him in order that he might be with Him. 19. But Yâhuwshúa did not let him, "On the contrary," He said to him: "Go unto your house before your own family, and announce to them how Yâ-hwéh had compassion for you, and how much He did for you." 20. So he departed and began to proclaim within the ten cities (Dekápolis) how much Yâhuwshúa had done for him, and all marveled. 21. And when Yâhuwshúa had crossed over on the ship again unto the other side, large crowds were gathered together about Him, and He was by the sea. 22. And look! One of the chiefs of the assembly named Yâhuw’ârâ´sh comes, and seeing Him, falls before His feet! 23. And he implored Him much, saying: "My little daughter is at the point of death! O that You, having come, would lay Your hand on her so that she may be delivered, and she should live!" 24. And Yâhuwshúa departed with him and a great crowd followed Him and thronged Him. 25. Yet a certain wife [Berníke (Nikódemos 7)], who was with a flux of blood twelve years, 26. And who had suffered much under many physicians and had spent all the things she had, but who had benefited in no way, rather having come to worse, 27. When she had heard about Yâhuwshúa, having come behind Him within the crowd, she touched the tassel of His clothes, 28. For she said: "If I should but touch His clothes, I shall be cured!" 29. And immediately the source of her bleeding was dried up, and she recognized in her body that she was cured from the scourge! 30. And immediately Yâhuwshúa, recognizing within Himself that Force had gone forth from Him, having turned in the crowd, said: "Who touched My clothes?" 31. But His pupils said to Him: "You see the crowd thronging You, yet You say: 'Who touched Me?'" 32. And He looked around to see her who had done this. 33. And the wife, being frightened and trembling, discerning that which had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the entire truth. 34. And He said to her: "My daughter, your belief has delivered you; go in peace and be sound from your scourge." 35. While He is yet speaking, they come from the chief of the assembly's house, saying: "Your daughter is dead. Why do you still harass the Instructor?" 36. But Yâhuwshúa`, having heard the matter spoken, immediately says to the chief of the assembly: "Do not fear; only believe." 37. And He permitted no one to accompany Him except Shim'ówn Këph and Ya'aqóv and Yâhuwchânâ´n, the brother of Ya'aqóv. 38. And they come unto the house of the chief of the assembly and He sees uproar, weeping aloud and wailing. 39. And having entered, He says to them: "Why do ye make an uproar and weep? The young girl is not dead, rather, she sleeps.(25)" 40. But they laughed at Him. So He, having sent everyone out, He took the father of the young girl and the mother and those with Him, and enters in where the young girl was lying. 41. And having grabbed the hand of the young girl, He says to her: "Young girl, arise." 42. And the young girl immediately arose and walked around, for she was twelve years old; and they were astounded with great bewilderment! 43. And He strongly charged them that no one should know this, and He said food should be given to her to eat.

(25) Yâhuwshúa is teaching us also the proper reaction to deaths of loved ones. The statement that the dead sleep is noticeably made only in scripture about believers, though these also may and do awaken e.g. Shmuw’ë´l, and the fifth seal events.

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