5:1And they came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes.
5:2 And when He was come out of the ship, immediately there met Him out of the burial caves a man with a ruach hatumah (unclean spirit),
5:3 Who had [his] dwelling among the burial caves; and no man could bind Him, no, not with chains:
5:4 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.
5:5 And always, night and day, He was in the mountains, and in the burial caves, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
5:6 But when He saw Yeshua (ישוע) afar off, he ran and worshipped Him,
5:7 And cried with a loud voice, and said:
What have I to do with thee, Yeshua (ישוע), [thou] Ben Elohim ha Elyon?
I adjure thee by Elohim, that thou torment me not.
5:8 For Yeshua (ישוע) said unto him:
Come out of the man, [thou] ruach hatumah (unclean spirit).
5:9 And Yeshua (ישוע) asked him:
What [is] thy name? And He answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
5:10 And He besought Him much that He would not send them away out of the country.
5:11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
5:12 And all the shedim besought Him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
5:13 And forthwith Yeshua (ישוע) gave them leave. And the ruachim hatumah (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.
5:14 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.
5:15 And they come to Yeshua (ישוע), 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.
5:16 And they that saw [it] told them how it befell to Him that was possessed with the devil, and [also] concerning the swine.
5:17 And they began to pray Him to depart out of their coasts.
5:18 And when He was come into the ship, He that had been possessed with the devil prayed Him that He might be with Him.
5:19 Howbeit Yeshua (ישוע) suffered Him not, but saith unto Him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things Adonay hath done for thee, and hath had rachmei shomayim (compassion) on thee.
5:20 And He departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Yeshua (ישוע) had done for him: and all [men] did marvel.
5:21 And when Yeshua (ישוע) was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and He was nigh unto the sea.
5:22 And, behold, there cometh one of the Roshei Beit haKnesset, Ya'ir by name; and when he saw Yeshua (ישוע), he fell at his feet,
5:23 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."
5:24 And [Yeshua (ישוע)] went with him; and much people followed Him, and thronged Him.
5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
5:27 When she had heard of Yeshua (ישוע), came in the press behind, and touched His garment.
5:28 For she said, If I may touch but His clothes, I shall be whole.
5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in [her] body that she was healed of that plague.
5:30 And Yeshua (ישוע), immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of Him, turned Him about in the press, and said, Who touched My clothes?
5:31 And His Talmidim said unto Him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?
5:32 And He looked round about to see her that had done this thing.
5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before Him, and told Him all the truth.
5:34 And He said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
5:35 While He yet spake, there came from the ruler of the Shul's [house certain] which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?
5:36 As soon as Yeshua (ישוע) heard the word that was spoken, He saith unto the ruler of the Shul, Be not afraid, only believe.
5:37 And He suffered no man to follow Him, save Kefa, and Yaakov, and Yochanan the brother of Ya'akov.
5:38 And He cometh to the house of the ruler of the Shul, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
5:39 And when He was come in, He saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
5:40 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.
5:41 And He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talita Kumi (rise); which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
5:42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was [of the age] of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
5:43 And He charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
The inhabitants of Gadara, mentioned in the account of the healing of the demoniacs also called "Gergesenes," and "Gerasenes." Gad Ara was the capital of the Roman province of Peraea, E of the Jordan, about six miles from the Sea of Galil and opposite Tiberias. Yeshua healed the demoniac in Gadara. The modern village Um-Keis is in the midst of ruins intimating the grandeur of the ancient Gadara.
Legion, also known as the Gadarene demon, or translated as Lots