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Mark 5:17-30 English Standard Version (ESV)

17. And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.

18. As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.

19. And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”

20. And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.

21. And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.

22. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet

23. and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”

24. And he went with him.And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.

25. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,

26. and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.

27. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.

28. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”

29. And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

30. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”