When
Jesus saw the crowd around him, he instructed his disciples to cross to the
other side of the lake.
Then one of the teachers of religious law
said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
But Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens
to live in, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place even to
lay his head.”
Another of his disciples said, “Lord,
first let me return home and bury my father.”
But Jesus told him, “Follow me now.
Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead.”
Then
Jesus got into the boat and started across the lake with his
disciples. Suddenly, a fierce storm struck the lake, with waves breaking
into the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him up,
shouting, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!”
Jesus responded, “Why are you
afraid? You have so little faith!” Then he got up and rebuked the wind and
waves, and suddenly there was a great calm.
The disciples were amazed. “Who is this man?”
they asked. “Even the winds and waves obey him!”
When
Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the
Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They came out of
the tombs and were so violent that no one could go through that area.
They began screaming at him, “Why are you
interfering with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before God’s
appointed time?”
There happened to be a large herd of pigs
feeding in the distance. So the demons begged, “If you cast us out, send
us into that herd of pigs.”
“All right, go!” Jesus commanded
them. So the demons came out of the men and entered the pigs, and the whole
herd plunged down the steep hillside into the lake and drowned in the water.
The herdsmen fled to the nearby town,
telling everyone what happened to the demon-possessed men. Then the entire
town came out to meet Jesus, but they begged him to go away and leave them
alone.
~ Source : Matthew 8:18-34
[Holy Bible -NLT] taken from https://www.biblegateway.com
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