Ezekiel 46:1-24

(1)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

(2)  The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

(3)  The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.

(4)  The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.

(5)  And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

(6)  On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.

(7)  As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.

(8)  When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

(9)  "When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.

(10)  When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

(11)  "At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.

(12)  When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

(13)  "You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.

(14)  And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.

(15)  Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.

(16)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.

(17)  But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance--it shall belong to his sons.

(18)  The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property."

(19)  Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.

(20)  And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so communicate holiness to the people."

(21)  Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court--

(22)  in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.

(23)  On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.

(24)  Then he said to me, "These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people."

Mark 5:1-43

(1)  They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

(2)  And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.

(3)  He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,

(4)  for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.

(5)  Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones.

(6)  And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.

(7)  And crying out with a loud voice, he said, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me."

(8)  For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"

(9)  And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

(10)  And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

(11)  Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,

(12)  and they begged him, saying, "Send us to the pigs; let us enter them."

(13)  So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

(14)  The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.

(15)  And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.

(16)  And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the pigs.

(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?"

(31)  And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, 'Who touched me?'"

(32)  And he looked around to see who had done it.

(33)  But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.

(34)  And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease."

(35)  While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?"

(36)  But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not fear, only believe."

(37)  And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.

(38)  They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.

(39)  And when he had entered, he said to them, "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping."

(40)  And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child's father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.

(41)  Taking her by the hand he said to her, "Talitha cumi," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, arise."

(42)  And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.

(43)  And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

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