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asked him,
What
is
thy name?
And he answered, saying, My name
is
Legion: for we are many.
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And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
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Now there
was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
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And all the devils besought
him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
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And forthwith Jesus gave them
leave. And the 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.
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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.
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And they come to Jesus, 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.
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And they that
saw
it
told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and
also
concerning the
swine.
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And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
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And when he was come into
the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
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Howbeit
Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him,
Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things
the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.
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And he departed, and began to
publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all
men
did marvel.
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And when
Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he
was nigh unto the sea.
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And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by
name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
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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.
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And
Jesus
went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged
him.
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And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
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And had suffered many
things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew
worse,
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When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.
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For
she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
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And straightway the fountain of her
blood was dried up; and she felt in
her
body that she was healed of that plague.
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And Jesus,
immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press,
and said,
Who touched my clothes?
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And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude
thronging thee, and sayest thou,
Who touched me?
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And he looked round about to see her that
had done this thing.
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But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came
and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.
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And he said unto her,
Daughter, thy faith
hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
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While he yet spake, there came
from the ruler of the synagogue’s
house certain
which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest
thou the Master any further?
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As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the
ruler of the synagogue,
Be not afraid, only believe.
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And he suffered no man to follow him, save
Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.
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And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the
synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
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And when he was come
in, he saith unto them,
Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
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And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the
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