Week 04 | Monday | Mark 5:1-13

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Today’s Reading:

So they came to the other side of the lake, to the region of the Gerasenes.^[1]Read-Scripture Textual Note: Some manuscripts have Gadarenes, and others have Gergasenes. Just as Jesus was getting out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs and met him. He lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.^[2]Read-Scripture Context Note: Living among the tombs, from a Jewish perspective, would have made the man ritually-impure/unclean. For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him. Then he cried out with a loud voice, “Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I implore you by God —do not torment me!” For Jesus had said^[3]Read-Scripture Translation Note: The verb here is in the imperfect, indicating undefined or durative action: ‘Jesus had been saying to him…’, ‘Jesus began saying to … (Read Rest of Note) to him, “Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”) Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” He begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of the region. There on the hillside, a great herd of pigs was feeding. And the demonic spirits begged him, “Send us into the pigs. Let us enter them.” Jesus gave them permission. So the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake, and about 2,000 were drowned in the lake. (Mark 5.1–13 NET)

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