1Eles atravessaram o mar e foram para a região dos gerasenos[1].2Quando Jesus desembarcou, um homem com um espírito imundo veio dos sepulcros ao seu encontro.3Esse homem vivia nos sepulcros, e ninguém conseguia prendê-lo, nem mesmo com correntes;4pois muitas vezes lhe haviam sido acorrentados pés e mãos, mas ele arrebentara as correntes e quebrara os ferros de seus pés. Ninguém era suficientemente forte para dominá-lo.5Noite e dia ele andava gritando e cortando-se com pedras entre os sepulcros e nas colinas.6Quando ele viu Jesus de longe, correu e prostrou-se diante dele7e gritou em alta voz: “Que queres comigo, Jesus, Filho do Deus Altíssimo? Rogo-te por Deus que não me atormentes!”8Pois Jesus lhe tinha dito: “Saia deste homem, espírito imundo!”9Então Jesus lhe perguntou: “Qual é o seu nome?” “Meu nome é Legião”, respondeu ele, “porque somos muitos.”10E implorava a Jesus, com insistência, que não os mandasse sair daquela região.11Uma grande manada de porcos estava pastando numa colina próxima.12Os demônios imploraram a Jesus: “Manda-nos para os porcos, para que entremos neles”.13Ele lhes deu permissão, e os espíritos imundos saíram e entraram nos porcos. A manada de cerca de dois mil porcos atirou-se precipício abaixo, em direção ao mar, e nele se afogou.14Os que cuidavam dos porcos fugiram e contaram esses fatos na cidade e nos campos, e o povo foi ver o que havia acontecido.15Quando se aproximaram de Jesus, viram ali o homem que fora possesso da legião de demônios, assentado, vestido e em perfeito juízo; e ficaram com medo.16Os que estavam presentes contaram ao povo o que acontecera ao endemoninhado e falaram também sobre os porcos.17Então o povo começou a suplicar a Jesus que saísse do território deles.18Quando Jesus estava entrando no barco, o homem que estivera endemoninhado suplicava-lhe que o deixasse ir com ele.19Jesus não o permitiu, mas disse: “Vá para casa, para a sua família e anuncie-lhes quanto o Senhor fez por você e como teve misericórdia de você”.20Então, aquele homem se foi e começou a anunciar em Decápolis o quanto Jesus tinha feito por ele. Todos ficavam admirados.
O Poder de Jesus sobre a Doença e a Morte
21Tendo Jesus voltado de barco para a outra margem, uma grande multidão se reuniu ao seu redor, enquanto ele estava à beira do mar.22Então chegou ali um dos dirigentes da sinagoga, chamado Jairo. Vendo Jesus, prostrou-se aos seus pés23e lhe implorou insistentemente: “Minha filhinha está morrendo! Vem, por favor, e impõe as mãos sobre ela, para que seja curada e que viva”.24Jesus foi com ele. Uma grande multidão o seguia e o comprimia.25E estava ali certa mulher que havia doze anos vinha sofrendo de hemorragia.26Ela padecera muito sob o cuidado de vários médicos e gastara tudo o que tinha, mas, em vez de melhorar, piorava.27Quando ouviu falar de Jesus, chegou por trás dele, no meio da multidão, e tocou em seu manto,28porque pensava: “Se eu tão somente tocar em seu manto, ficarei curada”.29Imediatamente cessou sua hemorragia e ela sentiu em seu corpo que estava livre do seu sofrimento.30No mesmo instante, Jesus percebeu que dele havia saído poder, virou-se para a multidão e perguntou: “Quem tocou em meu manto?”31Responderam os seus discípulos: “Vês a multidão aglomerada ao teu redor e ainda perguntas: ‘Quem tocou em mim?’ ”32Mas Jesus continuou olhando ao seu redor para ver quem tinha feito aquilo.33Então a mulher, sabendo o que lhe tinha acontecido, aproximou-se, prostrou-se aos seus pés e, tremendo de medo, contou-lhe toda a verdade.34Então ele lhe disse: “Filha, a sua fé a curou![2] Vá em paz e fique livre do seu sofrimento”.35Enquanto Jesus ainda estava falando, chegaram algumas pessoas da casa de Jairo, o dirigente da sinagoga. “Sua filha morreu”, disseram eles. “Não precisa mais incomodar o mestre!”36Não fazendo caso do que eles disseram, Jesus disse ao dirigente da sinagoga: “Não tenha medo; tão somente creia”.37E não deixou ninguém segui-lo, senão Pedro, Tiago e João, irmão de Tiago.38Quando chegaram à casa do dirigente da sinagoga, Jesus viu um alvoroço, com gente chorando e se lamentando em alta voz.39Então entrou e lhes disse: “Por que todo este alvoroço e lamento? A criança não está morta, mas dorme”.40Mas todos começaram a rir de Jesus. Ele, porém, ordenou que eles saíssem, tomou consigo o pai e a mãe da criança e os discípulos que estavam com ele e entrou onde se encontrava a criança.41Tomou-a pela mão e lhe disse: “Talita cumi!”, que significa “menina, eu ordeno a você, levante-se!”.42Imediatamente a menina, que tinha doze anos de idade, levantou-se e começou a andar. Isso os deixou atônitos.43Ele deu ordens expressas para que não dissessem nada a ninguém e mandou que dessem a ela alguma coisa para comer.
1They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.[1] (Mt 8:28; Lc 8:26)2And when Jesus[2] had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.3He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, (Ap 18:2)4for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.5Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.6And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him. (Mt 8:2)7And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” (Gn 14:18; Nm 24:16; Sl 57:2; Dn 3:26; Mt 4:3; Mt 4:6; Mt 14:33; Mt 26:63; Mc 1:26; Lc 1:32; Lc 6:35; At 8:7; At 16:17; At 19:13; Tg 2:19)8For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”9And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” (Mt 26:53)10And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.11Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,12and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”13So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.14The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.15And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed[3] man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. (Mc 5:9; Lc 8:27)16And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.17And they began to beg Jesus[4] to depart from their region. (Lc 5:8; At 16:39)18As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.19And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” (Sl 66:16; Mc 1:44)20And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled. (Mt 4:25; Mc 7:31)
Jesus Heals a Woman and Jairus’s Daughter
21And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.22Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet (Mt 9:18; Lc 8:41; Lc 13:14; At 13:15; At 18:8; At 18:17)23and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” (Mt 9:18; Mc 6:5; Mc 7:32; Mc 8:23; Mc 8:25; Mc 16:18; Lc 4:40; Lc 13:13; At 9:12; At 9:17; At 28:8)24And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. (Mc 3:9; Mc 5:31)25And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, (Lv 15:25)26and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.27She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.28For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”29And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. (Mt 15:28; Mt 17:18; Mc 3:10)30And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” (Lc 5:17; Lc 6:19; Lc 8:46; At 10:38)31And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”32And he looked around to see who had done it.33But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.34And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” (Mc 5:29; Lc 7:50)35While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” (Mc 5:22; Lc 7:6; Jo 11:28)36But overhearing[5] what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” (Mc 5:35)37And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. (Mc 3:17; Mc 9:2; Mc 14:33)38They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus[6] saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.39And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” (Jo 11:4; Jo 11:11; At 20:10)40And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. (At 9:40)41Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” (Mt 11:5; Mc 1:31; Lc 7:14; Lc 7:22; Jo 11:43)42And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.43And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat. (Mt 8:4; Mc 9:9)