The Words of Jesus Christ Page 47 Jesus Christ (cont'd) 14 Dialogues and Sayings concerned with Those He Healed (cont'd)
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14 Dialogues with Individuals (cont'd)
Dialogues and Sayings concerned with Those He Healed
(cont'd)
[There met him out of the tombs
a man
with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man
could any more bind him, no, not with a chain; because that he had been
often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by
him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.
And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying
out, and cutting himself with stones. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he
ran and worshipped him; and crying out with a loud voice, he saith,]
[What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure
thee by God, torment me not.]
Come forth, thou unclean spirit, out of the man.
What is thy name?
[My name is Legion; for we are many.
And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the
country.
Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding.
And they besought him: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
And he gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered into
the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the sea, in number about
two thousand; and they were choked in the sea. And they that fed them fled,
and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came to see what it
was that had come to pass. And they come to Jesus, and behold him that was
possessed with devils sitting, clothed and in his right mind, even him that
had the legion: and they were afraid. And they that saw it declared unto
them how it befell him that was possessed with devils, and concerning the
swine. And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders. And as he
was entering into the boat, he that had been possessed with devils besought
him that he might be with him. And he suffered him not:]
Go to thy house unto thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord
hath done for thee, and how he had mercy on thee.
[And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things
Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.]
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What question ye with them?
[One of the multitude: Master, I brought unto thee
my son, which hath a
dumb spirit; and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down: and he
foameth, and grindeth his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy
disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able.]
O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear
with you? bring him unto me.
[And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit
tare him grievously; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.]
How long time is it since this hath come unto him?
[From a child. And oft-times it hath cast him both into the fire and into
the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do anything, have compassion
on us, and help us.]
If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth.
[I believe; help thou mine unbelief.]
[And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the
unclean spirit:]
Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command
thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
[And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the child became
as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.]
[But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.]
[And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately: We
could not cast it out.]
This kind can come out by nothing, save by prayer.
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