in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are
on the earth,
004:032 yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all
the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds
of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
004:033 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they
were able to hear it.
004:034 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately
to his own disciples he explained everything.
004:035 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let's go
over to the other side."
004:036 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was,
in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.
004:037 A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat,
so much that the boat was already filled.
004:038 He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion,
and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care
that we are dying?"
004:039 He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace!
Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
004:040 He said to them, "Why are you so afraid? How is it that you
have no faith?"
004:041 They were greatly afraid, and said to one another, "Who then
is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
005:001 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country
of the Gadarenes.
005:002 When he had come out of the boat, immediately there met him
out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
005:003 who had his dwelling in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more,
not even with chains,
005:004 because 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.
005:005 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains,
he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
005:006 When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,
005:007 and 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."
005:008 For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
005:009 He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name
is Legion, for we are many."
005:010 He begged him much that he would not send them away out
of the country.
005:011 Now there was on the mountainside a great herd of pigs feeding.
005:012 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs,
that we may enter into them."
005:013 At 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.
005:014 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
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