¹ At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus,

² and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

³ For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife,

⁴ for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,'

⁵ and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

⁶ But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

⁷ whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask.

⁸ And she having been instigated by her mother -- `Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;

⁹ and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded [it] to be given;

¹⁰ and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

¹¹ and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought [it] nigh to her mother.

¹² And his disciples having come, took up the body, and buried it, and having come, they told Jesus,

¹³ and Jesus having heard, withdrew thence in a boat to a desolate place by himself, and the multitudes having heard did follow him on land from the cities.

¹⁴ And Jesus having come forth, saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion upon them, and did heal their infirm;

¹⁵ and evening having come, his disciples came to him, saying, `The place is desolate, and the hour hath now past, let away the multitudes that, having gone to the villages, they may buy to themselves food.'

¹⁶ And Jesus said to them, `They have no need to go away -- give ye them to eat.'

¹⁷ And they say to him, `We have not here except five loaves, and two fishes.'

¹⁸ And he said, `Bring ye them to me hither.'

¹⁹ And having commanded the multitudes to recline upon the grass, and having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he did bless, and having broken, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes,

²⁰ and they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full;

²¹ and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

²² And immediately Jesus constrained his disciples to go into the boat, and to go before him to the other side, till he might let away the multitudes;

²³ and having let away the multitudes, he went up to the mountain by himself to pray, and evening having come, he was there alone,

²⁴ and the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

²⁵ And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went away to them, walking upon the sea,

²⁶ and the disciples having seen him walking upon the sea, were troubled saying -- `It is an apparition,' and from the fear they cried out;

²⁷ and immediately Jesus spake to them, saying, `Be of good courage, I am [he], be not afraid.'

²⁸ And Peter answering him said, `Sir, if it is thou, bid me come to thee upon the waters;'

²⁹ and he said, `Come;' and having gone down from the boat, Peter walked upon the waters to Come unto Jesus,

³⁰ but seeing the wind vehement, he was afraid, and having begun to sink, he cried out, saying, `Sir, save me.'

³¹ And immediately Jesus, having stretched forth the hand, laid hold of him, and saith to him, `Little faith! for what didst thou waver?'

³² and they having gone to the boat the wind lulled,

³³ and those in the boat having come, did bow to him, saying, `Truly -- God's Son art thou.'

³⁴ And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret,

³⁵ and having recognized him, the men of that place sent forth to all that region round about, and they brought to him all who were ill,

³⁶ and were calling on him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment, and as many as did touch were saved.

¹ They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

² When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

³ He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,

⁴ because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

⁵ Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

⁶ When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

⁷ and crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don't torment me."

⁸ For he said to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

⁹ He asked him, "What is your name?" He said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

¹⁰ He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

¹¹ Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

¹² All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

¹³ At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

¹⁴ Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

¹⁵ They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

¹⁶ Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

¹⁷ They began to beg him to depart from their region.