The Life of Jesus

And, having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed before him,

and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What--to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

(for he said to him, `Come forth, spirit unclean, out of the man,')

and he was questioning him, `What is thy name?' and he answered, saying, `Legion is my name, because we are many;'

and he was calling on him much, that he may not send them out of the region.

And there was there, near the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding,

and all the demons did call upon him, saying, `Send us to the swine, that into them we may enter;'

and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea--and they were about two thousand--and they were choked in the sea.

And those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;

and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded--him having had the legion--and they were afraid;

and those having seen it , declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;

and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

And he having gone into the boat, the demoniac was calling on him that he may be with him,

and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, `Go away to thy house, unto thine own friends , and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

and he went away, and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus did to him, and all were wondering.

And Jesus having passed over in the boat again to the other side, there was gathered a great multitude to him, and he was near the sea,

and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet,

and he was calling upon him much, saying--`My little daughter is at the last extremity--that having come, thou mayest lay on her thy hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

and he went away with him. And there was following him a great multitude, and they were thronging him,

and a certain woman, having an issue of blood twelve years,

and many things having suffered under many physicians, and having spent all that she had, and having profited nothing, but rather having come to the worse,

having heard about Jesus, having come in the multitude behind, she touched his garment,

for she said--`If even his garments I may touch, I shall be saved;'

and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague.

And immediately Jesus having known in himself that out of him power had gone forth, having turned about in the multitude, said, `Who did touch my garments?'