THE GADARENE DEMONIAC. On the eastern shore of the lake: AND THEY CAME OVER UNTO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA, INTO THE COUNTRY OF THE GADARENES. The journey across the sea, which ordinarily took only a few hours, was prolonged, on account of the storm, to last all night. The next day they landed in t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME OUT OF THE SHIP, IMMEDIATELY THERE MET HIM OUT OF THE TOMBS A MAN WITH AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT,... [ Continue Reading ]
The demoniac:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO HAD HIS DWELLING AMONG THE TOMBS; AND NO MAN COULD BIND HIM, NO, NOT WITH CHAINS,... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THAT HE HAD BEEN OFTEN BOUND WITH FETTERS AND CHAINS, AND THE CHAINS HAD BEEN PLUCKED ASUNDER BY HIM, AND THE FETTERS BROKEN IN PIECES: NEITHER COULD ANY MAN TAME HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALWAYS, NIGHT AND DAY, HE WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND IN THE TOMBS, CRYING, AND CUTTING HIMSELF WITH STONES Matthew, in relating this story, speaks of two demoniacs, while Mark mentions only one, the speaker of the two, and probably also the fiercer of them. Hardly had Jesus 'stepped out of the boa... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN HE SAW JESUS AFAR OFF, HE RAN AND WORSHIPED HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
Acknowledging Jesus as the superior:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE AND SAID, WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE, JESUS, THOU SON OF THE MOST HIGH GOD? I ADJURE THEE BY GOD THAT THOU TORMENT ME NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE SAID UNTO HIM, COME OUT OF THE MAN, THOU UNCLEAN SPIRIT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ASKED HIM, WHAT IS THY NAME? AND HE ANSWERED, SAYING, MY NAME IS LEGION; FOR WE ARE MANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BESOUGHT HIM MUCH THAT HE WOULD NOT SEND THEM AWAY OUT OF THE COUNTRY. Other people had been in danger of their lives on account of the fierceness of the man. Demoniac strength and utter misery were combined in the poor sufferer. But here the man saw Jesus, and Him the evil spirits knew, had... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THERE WAS THERE NIGH UNTO THE MOUNTAINS A GREAT HERD OF SWINE FEEDING.... [ Continue Reading ]
The casting out:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE DEVILS BESOUGHT HIM, SAYING, SEND US INTO THE SWINE THAT WE MAY ENTER INTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FORTHWITH JESUS GAVE THEM LEAVE. AND THE UNCLEAN SPIRITS WENT OUT AND ENTERED INTO THE SWINE; AND THE HERD RAN VIOLENTLY DOWN A STEEP PLACE INTO THE SEA, (THEY WERE ABOUT TWO THOUSAND;) AND WERE CHOKED IN THE SEA. Not in the immediate vicinity of the speaker, but at some distance, yet in plain s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT FED THE SWINE FLED, AND TOLD IT IN THE CITY AND IN THE COUNTRY. AND THEY WENT OUT TO SEE WHAT IT WAS THAT WAS DONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The effect of the miracle:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY COME TO JESUS, AND SEE HIM THAT WAS POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL AND HAD THE LEGION, SITTING, AND CLOTHED, AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND; AND THEY WERE AFRAID.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT SAW IT TOLD THEM HOW IT BEFELL TO HIM THAT WAS POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL, AND ALSO CONCERNING THE SWINE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BEGAN TO PRAY HIM TO DEPART OUT OF THEIR COASTS. A sad sequel: pigs held in higher esteem than man. Note the pithy, vivid narration of the evangelist. The swine herders fled and announced to the owners in the city and the vicinity the fate of their property, and these came to verify the rep... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME INTO THE SHIP, HE THAT HAD BEEN POSSESSED WITH THE DEVIL PRAYED HIM THAT HE MIGHT BE WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ gives further evidence of His mercy:... [ Continue Reading ]
HOWBEIT JESUS SUFFERED HIM NOT, BUT SAITH UNTO HIM, GO HOME TO THY FRIENDS, AND TELL THEM HOW GREAT THINGS THE LORD HATH DONE FOR THEE, AND HATH HAD COMPASSION ON THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE DEPARTED, AND BEGAN TO PUBLISH IN DECAPOLIS HOW GREAT THINGS JESUS HAD DONE FOR HIM. AND ALL MEN DID MARVEL. Jesus embarked again" He went into the boat. Since the people of the region showed such a hostile spirit from the start and did not consider themselves worthy of eternal life, He left... [ Continue Reading ]
RAISING OF THE DAUGHTER OF JAIRUS. The prayer of Jairus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN JESUS WAS PASSED OVER AGAIN BY SHIP UNTO THE OTHER SIDE, MUCH PEOPLE GATHERED UNTO HIM; AND HE WAS NIGH UNTO THE SEA.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, THERE COMETH ONE OF THE RULERS OF THE SYNAGOGUE, JAIRUS BY NAME; AND WHEN HE SAW HIM, HE FELL AT HIS FEET,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BESOUGHT HIM GREATLY, SAYING, MY LITTLE DAUGHTER LIETH AT THE POINT OF DEATH; I PRAY THEE, COME AND LAY THY HANDS ON HER THAT SHE MAY BE HEALED, AND SHE SHALL LIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS WENT WITH HIM; AND MUCH PEOPLE FOLLOWED HIM AND THRONGED HIM. Mark relates this story at greater length, with closer attention to detail than the other evangelists, Matthew 9:18; Luke 8:41, except in the matter of symptoms of the sickness, in which Luke, the physician, is more exact. Upon... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A CERTAIN WOMAN, WHICH HAD HAD AN ISSUE OF BLOOD TWELVE YEARS,... [ Continue Reading ]
The woman with an issue of blood:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HAD SUFFERED MANY THINGS OF MANY PHYSICIANS, AND HAD SPENT ALL THAT SHE HAD, AND WAS NOTHING BETTERED, BUT RATHER GREW WORSE,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN SHE HAD HEARD OF JESUS, CAME IN THE PRESS BEHIND, AND TOUCHED HIS GARMENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SHE SAID, IF I MAY TOUCH BUT HIS CLOTHES, I SHALL BE WHOLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND STRAIGHTWAY THE FOUNTAIN OF HER BLOOD WAS DRIED UP; AND SHE FELT IN HER BODY THAT SHE WAS HEALED OF THAT PLAGUE. While Jesus was, at the urging of Jairus, hurrying towards his house, there was an interruption on the way. A woman, otherwise unknown, had had an issue of blood for twelve years, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS, IMMEDIATELY KNOWING IN HIMSELF THAT VIRTUE HAD GONE OUT OF HIM, TURNED HIM ABOUT IN THE PRESS AND SAID, WHO TOUCHED MY CLOTHES?... [ Continue Reading ]
The woman's confession:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS DISCIPLES SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SEEST THE MULTITUDE THRONGING THEE, AND SAYEST THOU, WHO TOUCHED ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LOOKED ROUND ABOUT TO SEE HER THAT HAD DONE THIS THING.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE WOMAN, FEARING AND TREMBLING, KNOWING WHAT WAS DONE IN HER, CAME AND FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM, AND TOLD HIM ALL THE TRUTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID UNTO HER, DAUGHTER, THY FAITH HATH MADE THEE WHOLE; GO IN PEACE, AND BE WHOLE OF THY PLAGUE. Jesus, the almighty God, is also omniscient. He knew all the while what the poor woman had been planning in her anxiety to regain her health. He was also fully conscious in Himself that a miracul... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE HE YET SPAKE, THERE CAME FROM THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE'S HOUSE CERTAIN WHICH SAID, THY DAUGHTER IS DEAD; WHY TROUBLEST THOU THE MASTER ANY FURTHER?... [ Continue Reading ]
Jesus reassures Jairus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AS SOON AS JESUS HEARD THE WORD THAT WAS SPOKEN, HE SAITH UNTO THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, BE NOT AFRAID, ONLY BELIEVE!... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SUFFERED NO MAN TO FOLLOW HIM, SAVE PETER, AND JAMES, AND JOHN, THE BROTHER OF JAMES. The delay caused by the woman had made Jesus and the entire multitude stop for some time, perhaps for five to ten minutes, with Jairus in the throes of impatience. And Jesus had not yet finished His comforti... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMETH TO THE HOUSE OF THE RULER OF THE SYNAGOGUE, AND SEETH THE TUMULT, AND THEM THAT WEPT AND WAILED GREATLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
Recalling the dead girl to life:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME IN,. HE SAITH UNTO THEM, WHY MAKE YE THIS ADO AND WEEP? THE DAMSEL IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN. BUT WHEN HE HAD PUT THEM ALL OUT, HE TAKETH THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF THE DAMSEL, AND THEM THAT WERE WITH HIM, AND ENTERETH IN WHERE THE DAMSEL WAS LYING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK THE DAMSEL BY THE HAND AND SAID UNTO HER, TALITHA, CUMI; WHICH IS, BEING INTERPRETED, DAMSEL, I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND STRAIGHTWAY THE DAMSEL AROSE AND WALKED; FOR SHE WAS OF THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS. AND THEY WERE ASTONISHED WITH A GREAT ASTONISHMENT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CHARGED THEM STRAITLY THAT NO MAN SHOULD KNOW IT; AND COMMANDED THAT SOMETHING SHOULD BE GIVEN HER TO EAT. Upon arriving at the house of Jairus, they were met by sights and sounds that emphasized the fact of a dead person's being on the premises. Even the poorest Jews felt constrained to hire... [ Continue Reading ]