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Mark 5:15

First Nations Version

There they found the man who had been tormented by the unclean spirits, sitting quietly at the feet of Creator Sets Free (Jesus). He was clothed and in his right mind. The people trembled with fear

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The Giver of Life has set us free from the dark ruler of this world. He has brought us safely onto his good road to walk it together with Creator’s much-loved Son.


Creator has not given us a timid spirit but one of power, love, and clear thinking.


As soon as he stepped from the canoe, a man from the village was there. This man had been tormented with evil spirits for a long time. His clothes had worn off him, and he was homeless, so he lived in the local burial grounds.


Then Creator Sets Free (Jesus) asked, “What is the name of the spirit you represent?” “Our name is Many Soldiers,” the evil spirits answered, “for our numbers are great.” The spirits feared Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and knew he could force them out of the man.


Her sister Healing Tears (Mary), who lived with her, sat next to Creator Sets Free (Jesus) on the floor, listening to his teaching. As their Wisdomkeeper, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) would teach the men who gathered around him, but this would not have been proper for a woman of that culture.


As Creator Sets Free (Jesus) was climbing into his canoe to leave, the man who had been set free from the evil spirits begged him to take him along.


as they listened to the story of how the man was set free and to the story about the pigs.


The people of the village had tried to capture the man and tie him down, but he would tear their ropes and break their chains. No one was strong enough to overpower him.


“Who can enter the strongman’s house and take away his goods, unless he first defeats him? He will then tie him up and take what is in his house.


His reputation as a healer spread as far as Bright Sun (Syria). Then they brought to him the ones tormented with evil spirits, along with people who suffered from seizures, and he healed them. He even healed the crippled and paralyzed among them.


When the spirit was forced out of him, the man began to speak. All the people were amazed and said, “In all the history of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) no one has ever seen this kind of powerful medicine.”


Do you not know that if I called out to my Father, he would send to me many thousands of spirit-messengers?


The local ones who were watching over the pigs rushed away, shaken and afraid. They went to the nearby village and told everyone all that happened. As word spread, people came from the villages and the countryside to see for themselves.





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