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As Yeshua stepped ashore, a man from the town who had demons came to meet him. For a long time he had not worn clothes; and he lived, not in a house, but in the burial caves.

For Yeshua had ordered the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It had often taken hold of him — he had been kept under guard, chained hand and foot, but had broken the bonds and been driven by the demon into the desert.

and the people came out to see for themselves. They came to Yeshua and found the man out of whom the demons had gone, sitting — dressed and in his right mind — at the feet of Yeshua; and they were frightened.

Then all the people of the Gerasene district asked him to leave them, for they had been seized with great fear. So he boarded the boat and returned.

"Go back to your home and tell how much God has done for you." He went away proclaiming throughout the whole town how much Yeshua had done for him.

When Yeshua got back, the crowd welcomed him; for they were all expecting him.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old; and she was dying. As he went, with the crowds on every side virtually choking him,

a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone,

All the people were wailing and mourning for her; but he said, "Don't weep; she hasn't died, she's sleeping."

He said to them, "Take nothing for your trip — neither a walking stick nor a pack, neither bread nor money; and don't have two shirts.

But he said to them, "Give them something to eat, yourselves!" They said, "We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish — unless we ourselves are supposed to go and buy food for all these people!"

(For there were about five thousand men.) He said to his talmidim, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

For whoever tries to save his own life will destroy it, but whoever destroys his life on my account will save it.

For if someone is ashamed of me and of what I say, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and that of the Father and of the holy angels.

As the men were leaving Yeshua, Kefa said to him, not knowing what he was saying, "It's good that we're here, Rabbi! Let's put up three shelters — one for you, one for Moshe and one for Eliyahu."

Yeshua said to him, "Don't stop such people, because whoever isn't against you is for you."

As the time approached for him to be taken up into heaven, he made his decision to set out for Yerushalayim.

He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village in Shomron to make preparations for him.

Stay in that same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for a worker deserves his wages — don't move about from house to house.

I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for S'dom than for that town.