Mark 5

1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.Cross-references: Matt 8:28 · Mark 4:35 · Luke 8:26

2When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.Cross-references: Isa 65:4 · Mark 1:23 · Mark 1:26 · Mark 3:30 · Mark 4:1 · Mark 5:8 · +3 more

3He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,Cross-references: Isa 65:4 · Dan 4:32 · Mark 9:18 · Luke 8:29

4because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.Cross-references: James 3:7

5Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.Cross-references: 1Ki 18:28 · Job 2:7 · John 8:44

6When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,Cross-references: Ps 66:3 · Ps 72:9 · Luke 4:41 · Acts 16:17 · James 2:19

7and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · 1Ki 22:16 · Hos 14:8 · Matt 4:3 · Matt 8:29 · Matt 16:16 · +20 more

8For he said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”Cross-references: Mark 1:25 · Mark 9:25 · Acts 16:18

9He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”Cross-references: Matt 12:45 · Matt 26:53 · Mark 5:15 · Luke 8:30 · Luke 11:21

10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.Cross-references: Mark 3:22 · Mark 5:13

11Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.Cross-references: Lev 11:7 · Deut 14:8 · Isa 65:4 · Isa 66:3 · Matt 8:30 · Luke 8:32

12All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”Cross-references: Job 1:10 · Job 2:5 · Luke 22:31 · 2Cor 2:11 · 1Pet 5:8

13At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:22 · Job 1:12 · Job 2:6 · Matt 8:32 · John 8:44 · 1Pet 3:22 · +3 more

14Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.Cross-references: Matt 8:33 · Luke 8:34

15They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.Cross-references: 1Sam 6:20 · 1Sam 16:4 · 1Chr 13:12 · 1Chr 15:13 · Job 13:11 · Ps 14:5 · +13 more

16Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

17They began to beg him to depart from their region.Cross-references: Gen 26:16 · Deut 5:25 · 1Ki 17:18 · Job 21:14 · Matt 8:34 · Mark 1:24 · +4 more

18As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.Cross-references: Ps 116:12 · Mark 5:7 · Mark 5:17 · Luke 8:38 · Luke 17:15 · Luke 23:42 · +1 more

19He didn’t allow him, but said to him, “Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you and how he had mercy on you.”Cross-references: Ps 66:16 · Isa 38:9 · Dan 4:1 · Dan 4:37 · Dan 6:25 · Jonah 2:1 · +3 more

20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.Cross-references: Matt 4:25 · Mark 7:31

21When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.Cross-references: Matt 9:1 · Mark 4:1 · Luke 8:40

22Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feetCross-references: Matt 2:11 · Matt 9:18 · Mark 5:33 · Mark 5:35 · Mark 5:38 · Luke 5:8 · +8 more

23and begged him much, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may be made healthy, and live.”Cross-references: 2Sam 12:15 · 2Ki 5:11 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 107:19 · Matt 8:3 · Mark 6:5 · +17 more

24He went with him, and a great multitude followed him, and they pressed upon him on all sides.Cross-references: Mark 3:9 · Mark 3:20 · Mark 5:31 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 8:42 · Luke 8:45 · +3 more

25A certain woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years,Cross-references: Lev 15:19 · Lev 15:25 · Matt 9:20 · Luke 8:43 · Luke 13:11 · John 5:5 · +2 more

26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,Cross-references: Job 13:4 · Ps 108:12 · Jer 8:22 · Jer 30:12 · Jer 51:8

27having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd and touched his clothes.Cross-references: 2Ki 13:21 · Matt 14:36 · Mark 6:56 · Acts 5:15 · Acts 19:12

28For she said, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well.”

29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.Cross-references: Ex 15:26 · Lev 20:18 · 1Ki 8:37 · Job 33:24 · Ps 30:2 · Ps 103:3 · +5 more

30Immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”Cross-references: Luke 5:17 · Luke 6:19 · Luke 8:46 · 1Pet 2:9

31His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’”Cross-references: Luke 8:45 · Luke 9:12

32He looked around to see her who had done this thing.

33But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.Cross-references: Ps 30:2 · Ps 66:16 · Ps 103:2 · Ps 116:12 · Mark 4:41 · Luke 1:12 · +2 more

34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”Cross-references: 1Sam 1:17 · 1Sam 20:42 · 2Ki 5:19 · Eccl 9:7 · Matt 9:2 · Matt 9:22 · +7 more

35While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?”Cross-references: Matt 26:18 · Mark 5:22 · Mark 10:17 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 8:49 · John 5:25 · +5 more

36But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”Cross-references: 2Chr 20:20 · Matt 9:28 · Matt 17:20 · Mark 5:34 · Mark 9:23 · Luke 8:50 · +3 more

37He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James.Cross-references: Mark 9:2 · Mark 14:33 · Luke 8:51 · Acts 9:40 · 2Cor 13:1

38He came to the synagogue ruler’s house, and he saw an uproar, weeping, and great wailing.Cross-references: Jer 9:17 · Matt 9:23 · Matt 11:17 · Mark 5:22 · Luke 8:52 · Acts 9:39

39When he had entered in, he said to them, “Why do you make an uproar and weep? The child is not dead, but is asleep.”Cross-references: Dan 12:2 · John 11:11 · Acts 20:10 · 1Cor 11:30 · 1Thess 4:13 · 1Thess 5:10

40They ridiculed him. But he, having put them all out, took the father of the child, her mother, and those who were with him, and went in where the child was lying.Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · 2Ki 4:33 · Neh 2:19 · Job 12:4 · Ps 22:7 · Ps 123:3 · +5 more

41Taking the child by the hand, he said to her, “Talitha cumi!” which means, being interpreted, “Girl, I tell you, get up!”Cross-references: Gen 1:3 · Ps 33:9 · Mark 1:31 · Mark 1:41 · Luke 7:14 · Luke 8:54 · +5 more

42Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.Cross-references: Mark 1:27 · Mark 4:41 · Mark 6:51 · Mark 7:37 · Acts 3:10

43He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 9:30 · Matt 12:16 · Matt 17:9 · Mark 1:43 · Mark 3:12 · +7 more