Daily Meditation
36 As soon as Jesus
heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be
not afraid, only believe.
Today’s Reading
The Gospel According
To
Mark
Chapter 5
And all men did
marvel
1 And they came over
unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when
he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man
with an unclean spirit, 3 who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man
could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 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. 5 And always,
night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting
himself with stones. 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped
him, 7 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. 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 9 And
he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for
we are many. 10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out
of the country. 11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of
swine feeding. 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the
swine, that we may enter into them. 13 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. 14 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.
15 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. 16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was
possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. 17 And they began to
pray him to depart out of their coasts. 18 And when he was come into the ship,
he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
19 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. 20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how
great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.
21 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. 22 And, behold, there cometh one of the
rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his
feet, 23 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. 24 And Jesus went with him; and much people
followed him, and thronged him.
25 And a certain
woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 and had suffered many
things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered,
but rather grew worse, 27 when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press
behind, and touched his garment. 28 For she said, If I may touch but his
clothes, I shall be whole. 29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was
dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 30 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? 31 And his disciples
said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who
touched me? 32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and
fell down before him, and told him all the truth. 34 And he said unto her,
Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy
plague.
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