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The Book of Jesus Chapter Seven: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
Many demons had gone into the man and they pleaded with Jesus not to send them away, out of the territory or order them to depart
into the bottomless pit, the Abyss. Now on the mountainside, some distance away, was a large herd of pigs feeding. The demons
pleaded with Jesus:
MAN.
If you cast us out, let us go away into the herd of pigs...send us to the pigs so that we can enter into them.
JESUS.
Go!
NARRATOR.
Jesus, immediately permitted them and the demons came out of the man and entered into the heard of pigs. At that, the whole herd of
pigs, which numbered about two-thousand, ran violently down the cliff, into the lake and drowned in the water.
When the men who kept and fed the herd of pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and made for the town. In the town and in the
surrounding territory, the men related the events that had occurred and told everything, including what had happened to the man
possessed of the demons. The people who heard the story, the whole town, went out to meet Jesus and to see what really happened.
When the people came to Jesus, they found the man who had been possessed with the demon and had the Legion, sitting at the feet of
Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. They were afraid. The man who had been eyewitnesses of the events told them how the man who
had been possessed by the demons came to be healed and what had happened to the pigs. The whole population of the Gadarene
territory begged Jesus to leave them and depart from their coasts, because they were overcome with great fear. Jesus returned to the
boat and was boarding, when the man who had been possessed by the demon, implored Jesus to permit him to stay with him. Jesus
however, wouldn't permit it, but sent him away saying:
JESUS.
Go home to your friends and your own house. Show and tell them about all the great things that God (the Lord) in his mercy has done
for you.
NARRATOR.
The man departed and began to publish throughout the whole town and the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him and everyone
marveled. Jesus left and crossed back to the other side of the lake.
Matthew 8:28-34; Mark 5:1-20; Luke 8:26-39
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The Woman who Touches Jesus' Cloak and The Daughter of Jairus
NARRATOR.
When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, the people welcomed his return , for they had all been waiting for him. Many
people gathered around him and he stayed by the lake side. Now a man named Jairus, who was an official of the Synagogue, came up
and seeing Jesus, fell at his feet and bowing low in front of him, earnestly pleaded with him to come to his house. For Jairus had only
one daughter, about 12 years old and she lay, dying.
JAIRUS.
My little daughter is lying at the point of death. Please, I beg you, come and lay your hands on her so that she can be healed and live.
NARRATOR.
Jesus got up and with his disciples and a large crowd of people following him, proceeded to the house of Jairus. But as Jesus went, the
multitude pressed in all around, crowding him on all sides. Now there was a certain woman who had been afflicted with a flow of
blood for twelve years. She had undergone extensive and painful treatment at the hands of various doctors and had spent all her living
and all that she had without any improvement. She could not be cured by any of them, in fact, she was getting worse. She had heard
about Jesus and coming in from behind him through the crowds, she went up and touched the hem of his garment. For she had said
within herself:
WOMAN.
If I could just touch his clothes, I would be healed.
NARRATOR.
At once, the source of her bleeding dried up and stopped and she felt within her body that indeed she had been healed of that
condition. Immediately, Jesus knowing within himself that power had gone out from him, turned around in the crowd and said:
JESUS.
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