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Mark 5:2

First Nations Version

As soon as Creator Sets Free (Jesus) stepped from the canoe, a man who was tormented by an unclean spirit came up to him.

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Suddenly, a man controlled by an unclean spirit cried out loud,


The unclean spirits said this because Creator Sets Free (Jesus) had said to the man, “Come out of him, you unclean spirit!”


As they were bringing the boy to him, the evil spirit took hold of him and threw the boy to the ground. But Creator Sets Free (Jesus) spoke sharply to the evil spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.


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.


A woman came to him who had a daughter with an unclean spirit in her. As soon as she heard about Creator Sets Free (Jesus), she came and humbled herself before him. She was an Outsider from the territory along the coastline of the Great Middle Sea (Mediterranean). She begged Creator Sets Free (Jesus) to force the evil spirit out of her daughter.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) returned to the lakeshore and once again a very large crowd gathered around him. They pressed in so close that he got into a canoe and pushed out a little way from shore, while the people stayed at the shoreline.


He said this because they were saying of Creator Sets Free (Jesus), “He has an evil spirit.”


The unclean spirit shook the man, threw him to the ground, and, howling with a loud voice, came out of him.


He asked his followers to keep a canoe close by, in case the crowd pressed in too close and crushed him.


So they left the crowd and climbed into the canoe with him and pushed off from shore along with some other canoes.


This man had been living at the local burial grounds, and no one could bind him, not even with iron chains.


Creator Sets Free (Jesus) and his followers canoed back to the other side of the lake. As soon as he arrived, a great crowd began to gather around him at the lakeshore.





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