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Mark 4:26-5:20

More seed parables

26 “This is what God’s kingdom is like,” said Jesus. “Once upon a time a man sowed seed on the ground. 27 Every night he went to bed; every day he got up; and the seed sprouted and grew without him knowing how it did it. 28 The ground produces crops by itself: first the stalk, then the ear, then the complete corn in the ear. 29 But when the crop is ready, in goes the sickle at once, because harvest has arrived.

30 “What shall we say God’s kingdom is like?” he said. “What picture shall we give of it? 31 It’s like a grain of mustard seed. When it’s sown on the ground, it’s the smallest of all the seeds on the earth. 32 But when it’s sown, it springs up and becomes the biggest of all shrubs. It grows large branches, so that ‘the birds of the air make their nests’ within its shade.”

33 He used to tell them a lot of parables like this, speaking the word as much as they were able to hear. 34 He never spoke except in parables. But he explained everything to his own disciples in private.

Jesus calms the storm

35 That day, when it was evening, Jesus said to them, “Let’s go over to the other side.”

36 They left the crowd, and took him with them in the boat he’d been in. There were other boats with him too.

37 A big windstorm blew up. The waves beat on the boat, and it quickly began to fill. 38 Jesus, however, was asleep on a cushion in the stern. They woke him up.

“Teacher!” they said to him, “We’re going down! Don’t you care?”

39 He got up, scolded the wind, and said to the sea, “Silence! Shut up!”

The wind died, and there was a flat calm. 40 Then he said to them, “Why are you scared? Don’t you believe yet?”

41 Great fear stole over them. “Who is this?” they said to each other. “Even the wind and the sea do what he says!”

The healing of the demoniac

So they came over the sea to the land of the Gerasenes. When they got out of the boat, they were suddenly confronted by a man with an unclean spirit. He was emerging from a graveyard, which was where he lived. Nobody had been able to tie him up, not even with a chain; he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he used to tear up the chains and snap the shackles. No one had the strength to tame him. On and on, night and day, he used to shout out in the graveyard and on the hillside, and slash himself with stones.

When he saw Jesus a long way away, he ran and threw himself down in front of him.

“Why you and me, Jesus?” he shouted at the top of his voice. “Why you and me, son of the High God? By God, stop torturing me!”— this last, because Jesus was saying to him, “Unclean spirit, come out of him!”

“What’s your name?” Jesus asked him.

“Legion,” he replied. “That’s my name—there are lots of us!” 10 And he implored Jesus not to send them out of the country.

11 It so happened that right there, near the hillside, was a sizable herd of pigs. They were grazing.

12 “Send us to the pigs,” begged the spirits, “so that we can enter them.”

13 So Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd rushed down the steep slope into the sea—about two thousand of them!—and were drowned.

14 The herdsmen fled. They told it in the town, they told it in the countryside, and people came to see what had happened. 15 They came to Jesus; and there they saw the man who had been demon-possessed, who had had the “legion,” seated, clothed and stone-cold sober. They were afraid. 16 The people who had seen it all told them what had happened to the man—and to the pigs. 17 And they began to beg Jesus to leave their district.

18 Jesus was getting back into the boat, when the man asked if he could go with him. 19 Jesus wouldn’t let him.

“Go back home,” he said. “Go to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you. Tell them how he had pity on you.”

20 He went off, and began to announce in the Ten Towns what Jesus had done for him. Everyone was astonished.

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