Jesus Heals the Gerasene Demoniac

⁵They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. ²And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him.³He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain;⁴for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.⁵Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones.⁶When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him;⁷and he shouted at the top of his voice, ‘What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.’⁸For he had said to him, ‘Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!’⁹Then Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ He replied, ‘My name is Legion; for we are many.’¹⁰He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.¹¹Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding;¹²and the unclean spirits begged him, ‘Send us into the swine; let us enter them.’¹³So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned in the lake. ¹⁴ The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened.¹⁵They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they were afraid.¹⁶Those who had seen what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine reported it.¹⁷Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighbourhood.¹⁸As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.¹⁹But Jesus refused, and said to him, ‘Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.’²⁰And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

The Rich Man and Lazarus

¹⁹ ‘There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.²⁰And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,²¹who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores.²²The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.²³In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. ²⁴He called out, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.”²⁵But Abraham said, “Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.²⁶Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.”²⁷He said, “Then, father, I beg you to send him to my father’s house—²⁸for I have five brothers—that he may warn them, so that they will not also come into this place of torment.”²⁹Abraham replied, “They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.”³⁰He said, “No, father Abraham; but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.”³¹He said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.” ’