The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 8
{8:1} It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities
and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of
God. With him were the twelve, {8:2} and certain women who had been
healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Miriam who was called
Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out; {8:3} and Yochanah,
the wife of Kuza, Herod's steward; Shoshanah; and many others; who
served [1>]them[<1] from their possessions. {8:4} When a great
multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to
him, he spoke by a parable. {8:5} "The farmer went out to sow his
seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under
foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. {8:6} Other seed fell on
the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no
moisture. {8:7} Other fell amid the thorns, and the thorns grew with
it, and choked it. {8:8} Other fell into the good ground, and grew,
and brought forth fruit one hundred times." As he said these things,
he called out, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
{8:9} Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
{8:10} He said, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the
Kingdom of God, but to the rest in parables; that 'seeing they may not
see, and hearing they may not understand.'[2] {8:11} Now the parable
is this: The seed is the word of God. {8:12} Those along the road are
those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from
their heart, that they may not believe and be saved. {8:13} Those on
the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but
these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of
temptation. {8:14} That which fell among the thorns, these are those
who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with
cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.
{8:15} That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and
good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth
fruit with patience.
{8:16} "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container,
or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter
in may see the light. {8:17} For nothing is hidden, that will not be
revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to
light. {8:18} Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to
him will be given; and whoever doesn't have, from him will be taken
away even that which he thinks he has."
{8:19} His mother and brothers came to him, and they could not come
near him for the crowd. {8:20} It was told him by some saying, "Your
mother and your brothers stand outside, desiring to see you."
{8:21} But he answered them, "My mother and my brothers are these
who hear the word of God, and do it."
{8:22} Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a
boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let's go over
to the other side of the lake." So they launched out. {8:23} But as
they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and
they were taking on dangerous amounts of water. {8:24} They came to
him, and awoke him, saying, "Master, master, we are dying!" He awoke,
and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and
it was calm.[3] {8:25} He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being
afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that
he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?" {8:26}
They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite
Galilee.
{8:27} When Yeshua stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who
had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't
live in a house, but in the tombs. {8:28} When he saw Yeshua, he cried
out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I
have to do with you, Yeshua, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you,
don't torment me!" {8:29} For Yeshua was commanding the unclean spirit
to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the
man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters.
Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.
{8:30} Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?"
He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him. {8:31} They
begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss. {8:32}
Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and
they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He
allowed them. {8:33} The demons came out from the man, and entered
into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake,
and were drowned. {8:34} When those who fed them saw what had
happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
{8:35} People went out to see what had happened. They came to
Yeshua, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting
at Yeshua's feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
{8:36} Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by
demons was healed. {8:37} All the people of the surrounding country of
the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much
afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned. {8:38} But the man
from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with
him, but Yeshua sent him away, saying, {8:39} "Return to your house,
and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way,
proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Yeshua had
done for him.
{8:40} It happened, when Yeshua returned, that the multitude
welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him. {8:41} Behold, there
came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell
down at Yeshua's feet, and begged him to come into his house, {8:42}
for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was
dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him. {8:43} A
woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her
living on physicians, and could not be healed by any, {8:44} came
behind him, and touched the [4>]fringe[<4] of his cloak, and
immediately the flow of her blood stopped. {8:45} Yeshua said, "Who
touched me?"
When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, "Master, the
multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, 'Who touched me?'"
{8:46} But Yeshua said, "Someone did touch me, for I perceived that
power has gone out of me." {8:47} When the woman saw that she was not
hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to
him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched
him, and how she was healed immediately. {8:48} He said to her,
"Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace."
{8:49} While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's
house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don't trouble the
Rabbi."
{8:50} But Yeshua hearing it, answered him, "Don't be afraid. Only
believe, and she will be healed."
{8:51} When he came to the house, he didn't allow anyone to enter
in, except Peter, Yochanan, Jacob, the father of the child, and her
mother. {8:52} All were weeping and mourning her, but he said, "Don't
weep. She isn't dead, but sleeping."
{8:53} They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead. {8:54}
But he put them all outside, and taking her by the hand, he called,
saying, "Child, arise!" {8:55} Her spirit returned, and she rose up
immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
{8:56} Her parents were amazed, but he commanded them to tell no one
what had been done.
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Footnotes:
[1] {8:3} TR reads "him" instead of "them"
[2] {8:10} Isaiah 6:9
[3] {8:24} See Psalm 107:29
[4] {8:44} or, tzitzit
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