Decapolis

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• MAT 4:23–25, engwebp

  ²³Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

  ²⁴The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

  ²⁵Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

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• MRK 5:1–20, engwebp

  ¹They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

  ²When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

  ³He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

  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.

  ⁵Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

  ⁶When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

  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.”

  ⁸For he said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

  ⁹He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

  ¹⁰He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

  ¹¹Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

  ¹²All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  ¹⁸As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

  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.”

  ²⁰He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

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• MRK 7:31–37, engwebp

  ³¹Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee through the middle of the region of Decapolis.

  ³²They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

  ³³He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and touched his tongue.

  ³⁴Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”

  ³⁵Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.

  ³⁶He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

  ³⁷They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”

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