Pericope 29 -
He leads and breeds not creeds but reads the needs.
His power is now our chance to free/be/see/..
And they came ..to the other side.. of the
Sea, to the region of the Gerasenes.
And having left the boat, immediately,
a man out of the tombs with an unclean
ol’ spirit, met him. His home was within
the tombs, and now no longer any chains
were able to help, even binding him,
for he had often been bound, as restraints,
with chains and shackles. He’d torn chains in two
and smashed the shackles. No-one could subdue
him any longer. All night, all day through,
he cried out, in the mountains and the tombs,
& cut himself with stones. Could folk do more?
And having seen Yeshua from afar
he ran, then fell down on his knees before
Him. Cried in an enormous voice, then asked:
“What’s it? - to me? - or you? Jesus, the Son
of God Most High? By God, I ask you here,
to not torment me more. For he’d begun
to say “Get out from this man, unclean spir-
it.” Next he's asking him, "What is your name?
And he is saying to him,"Legion is
my name, for we are many." He then came
to begging (many times), about regions:
that he would not send them out of that one.
Now there was, near the mountain, an enor-
mous herd of pigs a-feeding. They'd begun
to beg him, saying "send us, we implore.,
you, into them, so we can then entwine.”
And he allowed them, then the unclean spir-
its, having gone out, went into the swine.
The herd (about two thousand pigs are here),
it sped down that steep bank into the sea,
and there in that same sea, they all were drowned.
And those a-feeding them, fled heralding
to both the city, and country un-towned.
So folk come out to see what has occurred.
And then they come to Jesus and they see
the demonized one sitting, clothed, demurred,
& “sound of mind” - who used to have that Le-
gion, and they were afraid. And those who’d seen
it told them how it happened to the bloke
so demonized, and ‘bout the pigs (who’d been).
They started to implore him, (yes, they spoke
like Legion’s demons did before on knees)
to now depart from their own region then!
And Jesus having entered boat on seas,
found more implor-ing happened once again:
the demonized one asked to stay with him.
And he did not allow him, but he says
“Go to your home, and to your own, un-dimmed,
report how much the Lord did, how he cares,
and he had mercy on you, whom he touched.”
The man left, and began to herald in
the region of the Ten Towns, just how much...
(all were amazed what) Jesus did for him.
And did you catch the small equation made,
(or else that Hebrew “partnership” mindset
that understands authority as laid
upon us by the author, so we get
as humans to rule over God’s good world
with God as LORD, and we his rep’s. put here
to rule as underlords, as we’ve been told
to do, by him our LORD & GOD we “fear”.
This man sees “Lord” as title (not just Caesar’s
- yet someone who commands a legion out)..
and tells the Ten-towns Region about Jesus.
Now, is the mantra of ol’ Romea in doubt?
1Καὶ ἦλθον εἰς τὸ πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης εἰς τὴν χώραν τῶν Γερασηνῶν. 2καὶ ἐξελθόντος αὐτοῦ ἐκ τοῦ πλοίου εὐθὺς ὑπήντησεν αὐτῷ ἐκ τῶν μνημείων ἄνθρωπος ἐν πνεύματι ἀκαθάρτῳ, 3ὃς τὴν κατοίκησιν εἶχεν ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν, καὶ οὐδὲ ἁλύσει οὐκέτι οὐδεὶς ἐδύνατο αὐτὸν δῆσαι 4διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν πολλάκις πέδαις καὶ ἁλύσεσιν δεδέσθαι καὶ διεσπάσθαι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ τὰς ἁλύσεις καὶ τὰς πέδας συντετρῖφθαι, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἴσχυεν αὐτὸν δαμάσαι· 5καὶ διὰ παντὸς νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἦν κράζων καὶ κατακόπτων ἑαυτὸν λίθοις. 6Καὶ ἰδὼν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἀπὸ μακρόθεν ἔδραμεν καὶ προσεκύνησεν αὐτῷ 7καὶ κράξας φωνῇ μεγάλῃ λέγει· τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί, Ἰησοῦ υἱὲ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου; ὁρκίζω σε τὸν θεόν, μή με βασανίσῃς. 8ἔλεγεν γὰρ αὐτῷ· ἔξελθε τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀκάθαρτον ἐκ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. 9καὶ ἐπηρώτα αὐτόν· τί ὄνομά σοι; καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· λεγιὼν ὄνομά μοι, ὅτι πολλοί ἐσμεν. 10καὶ παρεκάλει αὐτὸν πολλὰ ἵνα μὴ αὐτὰ ἀποστείλῃ ἔξω τῆς χώρας. 11Ἦν δὲ ἐκεῖ πρὸς τῷ ὄρει ἀγέλη χοίρων μεγάλη βοσκομένη· 12καὶ παρεκάλεσαν αὐτὸν λέγοντες· πέμψον ἡμᾶς εἰς τοὺς χοίρους, ἵνα εἰς αὐτοὺς εἰσέλθωμεν. 13καὶ ἐπέτρεψεν αὐτοῖς. καὶ ἐξελθόντα τὰ πνεύματα τὰ ἀκάθαρτα εἰσῆλθον εἰς τοὺς χοίρους, καὶ ὥρμησεν ἡ ἀγέλη κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, ὡς δισχίλιοι, καὶ ἐπνίγοντο ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ.
14Καὶ οἱ βόσκοντες αὐτοὺς ἔφυγον καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀγρούς· καὶ ἦλθον ἰδεῖν τί ἐστιν τὸ γεγονὸς 15καὶ ἔρχονται πρὸς τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ θεωροῦσιν τὸν δαιμονιζόμενον καθήμενον ἱματισμένον καὶ σωφρονοῦντα, τὸν ἐσχηκότα τὸν λεγιῶνα, καὶ ἐφοβήθησαν. 16καὶ διηγήσαντο αὐτοῖς οἱ ἰδόντες πῶς ἐγένετο τῷ δαιμονιζομένῳ καὶ περὶ τῶν χοίρων. 17καὶ ἤρξαντο παρακαλεῖν αὐτὸν ἀπελθεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτῶν.
18Καὶ ἐμβαίνοντος αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ πλοῖον παρεκάλει αὐτὸν ὁ δαιμονισθεὶς ἵνα μετ’ αὐτοῦ ᾖ. 19καὶ οὐκ ἀφῆκεν αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ λέγει αὐτῷ· ὕπαγε εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου πρὸς τοὺς σοὺς καὶ ἀπάγγειλον αὐτοῖς ὅσα ὁ κύριός σοι πεποίηκεν καὶ ἠλέησέν σε. 20καὶ ἀπῆλθεν καὶ ἤρξατο κηρύσσειν ἐν τῇ Δεκαπόλει ὅσα ἐποίησεν αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, καὶ πάντες ἐθαύμαζον. Mark 5:1-20:- NA28
a The mantra of the Roman Imperial Cult: “Caesar is Lord!” As I understand it, this is the unifying cry, that keeps together a far flung empire, under the power & might of Rome, under her leadership (& her WAY) incarnate.
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