Mark's Gospel: Chapter 5
Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free from your disease.
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Learn the keywords, read the article, answer the questions, and then book a lesson with a language tutor.
Key words
- Plead: to make an urgent, emotional statement or request for something
"Give us more time," they pleaded.
- Right mind: to be thinking clearly or to be mentally well
He is back in his right mind now that he's stopped drinking so much alcohol.
- Compassion: a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for other people’s suffering or bad luck and a desire to help
I was hoping she might show a little compassion.
- Mourn: to feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone's death
Queen Victoria mourned Prince Albert's death for 40 years.
- Scorn: a very strong feeling of no respect for someone or something that you think is stupid or has no value
She has nothing but scorn for politicians.
Read the article to find the answers
- Where did the possessed man live?
- What did the possessed man do after the demons left him?
- How did the mourners laugh at Jesus?
- What did Jesus command?
Jesus saves a possessed man
An uncontrollable man, possessed by evil spirits, was living in a tomb near the shore, screaming and cutting himself. As soon as Jesus arrived, the man ran to Him.
Jesus spoke to the spirits possessing the man:
"Get out of the man, you unclean spirit!"