tl They reached the other side of the sea and the land of the Gerasenes. As Jesus stepped from the ship, a man possessed by an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him. He had made his dwelling among the tombs, and nobody could now bind him with chains; because he had often been bound with chains and fetters, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the fetters pounded to pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him. Day long and night long he was among the tombs and the hills, crying aloud and beating himself with stones. Seeing Jesus from afar he ran to him and bowed down before him and cried out in a great voice, saying: What have I to do with you, Jesus, son of the most high God? I adjure you before God, do not torment me. For Jesus had been saying to him: Go forth, unclean spirit, from the man. And he asked him: What is your name? He answered: My name is Legion, because we are many. And he implored him at length not to send them out of the country. By the hillside there was a great herd of swine feeding; and the spirits implored him, saying: Send us into the swine, so we may enter into them. He consented. And the unclean spirits came forth and entered into the swine, and the herd rushed over the cliff into the sea, as many as two thousand, and were drowned in the sea. Those who had been herding them fled and carried the news to the city and the countryside; and people came to see what had happened. Then they came up to Jesus, and they saw the man who had been possessed by demons sitting clothed and in his right mind, the man who had had the legion, and they were frightened. Those who had seen told them how it had happened with the man possessed by demons, and about the swine. And they began to entreat him to leave their territory. As he boarded the ship, the man who had been afflicted by demons asked if he could go along with him. Jesus refused him and said: Go home to your people and tell them what your lord did for you and how he took pity on you. And he went, and began to report in the Decapolis what Jesus had done for him. And all marveled.
After Jesus had crossed with his ship back to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him; and he was by the sea. And there came to him one of the leaders of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and when he saw him he fell at his feet and implored him at length, saying: My little daughter is at the point of death; so come and lay your hands upon her, so that she may recover and live. He went with him; and a great throng followed, and they were crowding against him. There was a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years, and had been treated in many ways by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and got no benefit but rather got worse; she had heard about Jesus, and she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his mantle; for she said to herself: If I touch only his mantle I shall be healed. And immediately the source of her flow of blood dried up, and she knew in her body that she had been healed of her affliction. Immediately Jesus felt in himself that power had gone forth from him, and he turned about and said: Who touched my mantle? His disciples said to him: Do you see the throng that is crowding upon you, and yet do you ask: Who touched me? And he looked around to see who had done it. And the woman, in fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, threw herself down before him and told him the whole truth. He said to her: My daughter, your faith has saved you; go in peace and be healed of your affliction. While he was still talking, they came from the house of the leader of the synagogue saying: Your daughter has died; why do you continue to trouble the master? Jesus disregarded the talk that was going on and said to the leader of the synagogue: Have no fear, only have faith. And he would not let anyone follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. They entered the house of the leader of the synagogue, and he was aware of a great tumult, and people weeping and l^enting greatly, and going in he said to them: Why this tumult and weeping? The child has not died, she is asleep. They laughed at him. He drove out all the others, and took with him the father and mother of the child and those who were with him, and went in where the child was; and he took the child's hand, and said to her: Talitha cum; which is, translated: Little girl, I say to you: Awake. At once the little girl got up and walked about, for she was twelve years old. They were seized with great amazement. And he charged them at length that no one should be told about this; and he said she should be given something to eat.
tl He left that place and went to his own country, and his disciples followed him. When it was the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; and most of those who heard him were astonished and said: From where does the man derive all this, and what is this wisdom that has been given to him, and what are these powers that are fulfilled by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James and Joseph and-Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here among us? And they made it difficult for him. Jesus said to them: No prophet is rejected except in his own country, and among his own kinsmen, and in his own house. And he could not exercise any power there, except that he laid his hands on a few who were sick and healed them; and he marveled at their lack of faith.
He circulated among the villages, teaching. And he summoned the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and he gave them power over unclean spirits, and he instructed them not to take anything with them for the journey, except only a staff, no bread, no bag, no coppers for the money belt, with sandals on their feet, and no extra tunic. And he said to them: Once you enter a house, remain there until you leave the district. And when a place will not receive you and people will not listen to you, as you leave it shake the dust from the soles of your feet in witness against them. And they went forth and preached the message of repentance, and drove out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.
Now King Herod heard of this, for the name of Jesus had become well known to him; and they were saying that John the Baptist had risen from the dead, and for that reason the powers were working in him. But others said that it was Elijah, and others that it was a prophet, like one of the Prophets. But when Herod heard of it, he said: This is John whom I beheaded. He has arisen. For Herod himself had sent men out and seized John and confined him in prison, on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother and his marriage to her. For John had said to Herod: It is not lawful for you to take the wife of your brother. Herodias held a grudge against him and wished to kill him, but she was not able to; for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he kept him safe; and when he listened to him he was much perplexed, and yet he listened with pleasure. Then her opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for the nobles and captains and foremost people of Galilee; and the daughter of Herodias came before them and danced, and she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girclass="underline" Ask me what you wish and I will give it to you. And he swore to her: Whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half of my kingdom. She went out and said to her mother: What shall I ask for? She said: The head of John the Baptist. So she hastened back to the king and made her request, saying: I wish you to give me forthwith the head of John the Baptist, on a platter. Though the king was grieved, because of the oaths and the guests he was unwilling to deny her; and immediately he sent a guardsman with orders to bring back his head. And the man went and beheaded him in the prison and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. When his disciples heard of it they came and took up the body and laid it in a tomb.
The apostles rejoined Jesus and reported all they had done and all their teaching. He said to them: Come with me, you only, to a private place and rest a while. For there were many coming and going and they had no opportunity even to eat. And they went away on their ship, privately, to a deserted place. But many saw them going and were aware of them, and from all the cities they ran together on foot to that place, and arrived there before them. When he came ashore, he saw a great multitude, and he was sorry for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them at length. As it was growing very late, his disciples came to him and said: This is a lonely place and the time is late. Send them away so they may go to the farms and the villages round about and buy themselves something to eat. He answered and said to them: You give them something to eat. They said to him: Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of loaves and give them to them to eat? But he said to them: How many loaves do you have? Go and see. When they had found out, they said: Five, and two fish. He gave them orders that all should be set down party by party on the green grass; and they took their places group by group, fifty and a hundred at a time. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looked up into the sky, and gave a blessing, and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and he divided the two fish among all. And all ate, and were fed; and they took up enough broken pieces of bread and fish to fill twelve baskets. Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.