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Mark 5 is the fifth chapter of the
Gospel of Mark in the
New Testament of the
Christian Bible. It relates the story of three
miracles of Jesus; an
exorcism, a
healing, and a possible
resurrection.
Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac
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Jesus and his
disciples travel to
Gerasenes across the lake by boat, a region that is in modern
Jordan. A
possessed man comes to meet them. Mark relates that the man had lived in nearby
tombs, and had fought off all attempts to chain him up. He roamed the tombs and hills screaming.
The man falls at Jesus's feet and begs Jesus not to harm him. Jesus asks him what his name is and he replies "My name is
Legion,...for we are many". Legion might be a reference to the
Roman army. (Miller 24) They see some nearby
pigs and the
demons ask if they can be put in the pigs, which Jesus does. The pigs then rush into the lake and drown.
The people tending the pigs run off to town telling everyone what happened and some come to check it out. When they arrive the man is sitting dressed and
sane. They are disturbed and ask Jesus to leave the area and he complies. The man asks Jesus to let him follow him, but Jesus tells him to go home to his family and tell them what
God has done for him. The man then travels over the
Decapolis telling people the story.
This story occurs in
Matthew http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=8&version=31 8:28-34, where there are
two possessed men, and
Luke http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=49&chapter=8&version=31 8:26-39.
Jairus' daughter and the woman who touched Jesus' garment
On the other side of the lake Jesus is met by a man named Jairus, a
Synagogue Ruler (a rich patron of the local house of worship (Miller 24), who begs Jesus to heal his sick, twelve year old girl. Jesus takes only
Peter,
James, and
John. This story does not occur in the
Gospel of John. On the way there, a woman who suffers from chronic "bleeding", perhaps
menorrhagia or bleeding from
fibroids. (Brown et al. 608) It could also just be a general
hemorrhage. She sneaks up to Jesus and touches his garment, according to and (see also ,
Mark 6#Healing of the sick of Gennesaret) the
"fringe of his cloak" [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=254&letter=J&search=Jesus Jewish Encyclopedia: Jesus: "Jesus wore the Ẓiẓit (Matt. ix. 20)"; http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/strongs.pl?strongs=2899 Strong's Concordance G2899; Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the NT, 3rd ed., 1979: : 1. edge, border, hem of a garment - But meaning 2 is also possible for these passages, dependending on how strictly Jesus followed Mosaic law, and also upon the way in which was understood by the authors and first readers of the gospels. 2. tassel (ציצת), which the Israelite was obligated to wear on the four corners of his outer garment, according to Num 15:38f; Dt 22:12. ... Of the Pharisees ... Mt 23:5."; http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06307b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Fringes (in Scripture): "It was very likely the tassel of the corner thus thrown over Our Lord's shoulder that the woman with the issue of blood touched ("behind him"), in the circumstance recorded in Matt., ix, 20, and Luke, viii, 44."] NRSV), by which she is healed. He turns to see who and she fearfully confesses. He says "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering."
Men arrive and tell Jairus that his daughter is dead. Jesus brushes them off and says "Don't be afraid; just believe." They arrive at the house and everyone is crying loudly. Jesus assures everyone she is just asleep, goes inside and
tells her to get up and she does. Unlike the demon possessed man he tells them
not to tell people of these events.
This is also in Matthew
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=47&chapter=9&version=31 9:18-26 and Luke
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=49&chapter=8&version=31 8:40-56. Luke keeps the stories of the possessed man and the two women together but Matthew inserts the story of the paralyzed man, calling of
Matthew, and the parable of the wineskins found in
Mark 2 between these two stories.
References
*Brown, Raymond E. et al.
The New Jerome Biblical Commentary Prentice Hall 1990 ISBN 0-13-614934-0
*
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=48&chapter=5&version=31 Mark 5 NIV Accessed
27 October 2005*Miller, Robert J.-Editor
The Complete Gospels Polebridge Press
1994. ISBN 0-06-065587-9
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|Preceded by:
Mark 4
|Gospel of Mark
|Followed by:
Mark 6
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Category:New Testament chapters
