Chapter 8: (Introduction to the Gospels, Coding Reference)
1Moreover ╓with him having descended╖ ┌{upon} him having descended┐ from the mountain many crowds followed him. 2And lo {the one} leprous, ╓having come╖ ┌having come forward┐, made obeisance to him saying, “Sir! If you would desire, you are being able to have cleansed me.”
3And ╓the Jesus╖ ┌he┐, having stretched the hand, contacted him saying, “I desire. Be you cleansed.” And immediately the serious skin disease of him was cleansed; 4and the Jesus says to him, “Observe you no one, say you {nothing}, but depart you, display you yourself to the priest, bring you forward the offering which a Moses prescribed into testimony to them.”
5Moreover ┬with the Jesus having entered┬ ┌{upon} his having entered┐ ╥with him having entered╥ into a Capernaum, a centurion, entreating him, came forward to him, 6and saying, “Sir! The paralyzed boy‹a› of me, being tortured terribly, has been cast within the house.” 7And ╓the Jesus╖ ┌he┐ says to him, “Having come, I will medically treat him.” 8And the centurion, having replied, was asserting, “Sir! I am not competent so that you might enter under the roof of me, but only say you ┬a word┬ ╔with word╗, and the boy‹a› of me will be healed. 9For I am also a person under authority, having soldiers under myself; and I say to this one, ‘Be you proceed, and he proceeds; and to {the one} other come you, and he comes; and to the slave of me do you this, and he does {it}.”
10Moreover the Jesus, having heard, marveled, and he said to the ones following, “Truly I say to you, ‘╓Not even╖ ┌Beside no one┐ within the Israel did I find so great a complete confidence and total trust.’ 11Moreover I say to you, ‘That many from easts and wests will have arrived, and they will be reclined at table with an Abraham and an Isaac and a Jacob within the dominion of the universes.’ 12Moreover the sons of the dominion will be cast into the darkness, the one outer; and the wailing and the gnashing of teeth will be there.
13And the Jesus said to the centurion, “Depart you ╓and╖ as you had complete confidence and was totally trusting, let be it became to you, and the boy of him was healed within that, the second‹b›.
14And the Jesus, having come into the house of a Peter, observed the mother-in-law of him having had been cast {upon the couch} and being feverish. 15And he contacted the hand of her, and the fever dismissed her, and she was arisen, and she was serving him.
16Moreover {upon} evening having become they brought forward to him many being maniacal, and he cast forth the spirits with a word, and he treated medically all the ones having illness, 17to the end that it might be fulfilled the one having been said through an Isaiah, the prophet, saying, “He took the feeblenesses of us, and he bore the insanities.”
18Moreover the Jesus, having observed ╓many crowds╖ ┌a crowd┐ around him he commanded to have gone forth into the one on the other side. 19And one scribe, having come forward, said to him, “Teacher! I will follow you if you would go forth.”
20And the Jesus says to him, “The foxes have dens and the ones winged of the universe {have} perches; moreover the son of the humanity has not where he may lay down the head.”
21Moreover another different of the adherents of him said to him, “Sir! Entrust you me to have gone forth and to have honored with funeral rites the father of me.”
22Moreover the Jesus said to him, “Follow you me, and dismiss you the ones dead to have honored with funeral rites the ones dead of themselves.”
23And with him having embarked into the fishing boat the adherents of him followed him, 24and lo a great agitation became within the sea, therefore the fishing boat to being covered from under the waves; moreover, he was lying asleep. 25And ╓the adherents of him╖ ┌they┐, having come forward, awakened him saying, “Sir! Rescue you ╓us╖! We are being utterly destroyed!”
26And he says to them, “Why are you cowardly, {the ones} diminished of complete confidence and total trust?” At that time he, having been awakened, censured the winds and the sea, and a great calm became.
27Moreover the humanity marveled saying, “Of what sort is this one because also the winds and the sea harken to him?”
28And ╓with him coming╖ ┌{upon} him coming┐ into the one on the other side, into the country of the ╓Gergesene╖ ┌Gadarene┐‹d›, {the ones} two very greatly cruel, being maniacal, coming forth out of the tombs, encountered him, therefore anyone {lacking} to have strength {could} not to have passed through that, the way. 29And lo they screamed saying, “Why to us and to you, ╓Jesus╖, son of the god, did you come here before the appropriate time‹c› to have tortured us.”
30Moreover a herd, being fed of many young pigs, was afar from them. 31Moreover the semi-divine beings were entreating him saying, “If you cast us forth, entrust you us to have gone forth into the herd of young pigs.”
32And he said, “Depart you!” Moreover, the ones, having gone forth, went forth into ╓the herd of the young pigs╖ ┌the young pigs┐; and lo all the herd ╓of young pigs╖ darted down the cliff into the sea, and they deceased within the waters.
33Moreover the ones tending to feeding‹e› fled, and they, having gone forth into the city, reported all and the ones of the ones being mad. 34And lo all the city went forth into ╓confrontation╖ ┌engagement┐ with Jesus; and having observed him they did entreat to the end that he might transition from the territory of them.
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‹a›The Greek word is παίς, pais meaning boy probably before the age of puberty or for a youthful servant, whether free or slave, although it is a masculine noun it is not a gender specific word, thus the child or the servant could be of either gender. From the context and the fact that the soldier was a centurion in a foreign land, it is more probable that the person in this context was a youthful servant. Although I translate as boy, it also could be a term of endearment as a father will often speak of his son as his boy and so may have the centurion been holding this servant in high esteem and spoke of him as his boy.
‹b›The Greek is ὥρα, hōra meaning any period of time, season, year, fitting time; thus contextually the healing was at that moment or the second.
‹c›The Greek is καιρός, kairos, meaning due measure or when time inferred critical time, season, opportune time; thus contextually appropriate time as a much future time is implied.
‹d›The region of the Gargesa [possibly a variant of Gerasa] was an area within the Decapolis (ten cities) on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan River. The ten cites were inland from the northern most Damascus (modern day Damascus, Syria), Canatha, Hippos (on the sea of Galilee), Dion, Raphana, Gadara, Scytopois, Pella, Gerasa, Pella, Philadelphia (modern day Amman, Jordan). The six southern most cities would have been in the land of Manasseh and Gad. These were self-governing cities with a Greek culture and of Roman military importance of the eastern frontier. Thus the young pigs herd, forbidden for the Israelites has its presence amongst these primarily Gentile peoples. The afflicted person may have been an Israelite since Jesus was sent to the Israelites. The Nestle-Aland text has Gadara which is further north of Gerasa. The topography would possibly include land on the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee in the region of Gadara. It is uncertain as to what the relationship between these city states may have been. In Mark these country names are reverse in the texts: the TR-MT having Gadara and the NA having Gerasa.
‹e›The Greek is βόσκω, boskō meaning feed, nourish; thus contextually only the pigs can feed but the context is the ones tending the pigs fled so the rendering tending to the feeding.
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updated: June 2009
original: March 2009
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