Jesus

After a large crowd had gathered from the people who kept coming to him from town after town, Yeshua told this parable:

But some fell into rich soil, and grew, and produced a hundred times as much as had been sown." After saying this, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear with, let him hear!"

His talmidim asked him what this parable might mean,

and he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the Kingdom of God; but the rest are taught in parables, so that they may look but not see, and listen but not understand.

Then Yeshua's mother and brothers came to see him, but they couldn't get near him because of the crowd.

It was reported to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside and want to see you."

But he gave them this answer: "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's message and act on it!"

One day Yeshua got into a boat with his talmidim and said to them, "Let's cross to the other side of the lake."

So they set out; and as they were sailing, he fell asleep. A windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat began to fill up with water, putting them in great danger.

They went and woke him, saying, "Rabbi! Rabbi! We're about to die!" He woke up, rebuked the wind and the rough water; and they calmed down, so that it was still.

Then he said to the talmidim, "Where is your trust?" Awestruck, they marveled, asking one another, "Who can this be, that he commands even the wind and the water, and they obey him?"

As Yeshua stepped ashore, a man from the town who had demons came to meet him. For a long time he had not worn clothes; and he lived, not in a house, but in the burial caves.

Catching sight of Yeshua, he screamed, fell down in front of him and yelled, "Yeshua! Son of God Ha`Elyon! What do you want with me? I beg you, don't torture me!"

For Yeshua had ordered the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It had often taken hold of him -- he had been kept under guard, chained hand and foot, but had broken the bonds and been driven by the demon into the desert.

Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, because many demons had entered him.

They begged Yeshua not to order them to go off into the Bottomless Pit.

Now there was a herd of many pigs, feeding on the hill; and the demons begged him to let them go into these. So he gave them permission.

and the people came out to see for themselves. They came to Yeshua and found the man out of whom the demons had gone, sitting -- dressed and in his right mind -- at the feet of Yeshua; and they were frightened.

Then all the people of the Gerasene district asked him to leave them, for they had been seized with great fear. So he boarded the boat and returned.

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged that he might go with him; but Yeshua sent him away, saying,

"Go back to your home and tell how much God has done for you." He went away proclaiming throughout the whole town how much Yeshua had done for him.

When Yeshua got back, the crowd welcomed him; for they were all expecting him.

Then there came a man named Ya'ir who was president of the synagogue. Falling at Yeshua's feet, he pleaded with him to come to his house;

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old; and she was dying. As he went, with the crowds on every side virtually choking him,

came up behind him and touched the tzitzit on his robe; instantly her hemorrhaging stopped.