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So they set out; and as they were sailing, he fell asleep. A windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat began to fill up with water, putting them in great danger.

They went and woke him, saying, "Rabbi! Rabbi! We're about to die!" He woke up, rebuked the wind and the rough water; and they calmed down, so that it was still.

Then he said to the talmidim, "Where is your trust?" Awestruck, they marveled, asking one another, "Who can this be, that he commands even the wind and the water, and they obey him?"

They sailed on and landed in the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite the Galil.

When the swineherds saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the town and in the country;

and the people came out to see for themselves. They came to Yeshua and found the man out of whom the demons had gone, sitting — dressed and in his right mind — at the feet of Yeshua; and they were frightened.

Then all the people of the Gerasene district asked him to leave them, for they had been seized with great fear. So he boarded the boat and returned.

Yeshua asked, "Who touched me?" When they all denied doing it, Kefa said, "Rabbi! The crowds are hemming you in and jostling you!"

They set out and went through village after village, healing and announcing the Good News everywhere.

The day began to draw to a close. The Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away, so that they can go and get lodging and food in the towns and farms around here, because where we are is a remote place."

But he said to them, "Give them something to eat, yourselves!" They said, "We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish — unless we ourselves are supposed to go and buy food for all these people!"

They did what he told them and had them all sit down.

Everyone ate as much as he wanted; and they took up what was left over, twelve baskets full of broken pieces.

They answered, "Yochanan the Immerser; but others say Eliyahu, and others that some prophet of long ago has risen."

They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke of his exodus, which he was soon to accomplish in Yerushalayim.

Kefa and those with him had been sound asleep; but on becoming fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him.

As he spoke, a cloud came and enveloped them. They were frightened as they entered the cloud;

But they didn't understand what he meant by this. It had been concealed from them so that they would not grasp its meaning, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

When the talmidim Ya‘akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, "Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?"

And they went on to another village.