Matthew 8:23-34

23Then Jesus got into a boat. His disciples also went with him.

24Immediately a great storm began to blow across the lake. Water began to go into the boat and fill it. Jesus was sleeping.

25The disciples went to him and they woke him. ‘Master, save us!’ they said. ‘We will die here in the water!’

26Jesus said to them, ‘You should not be so afraid. You should trust me more than you do!’ Then he stood up and he spoke strongly to the wind and the water. ‘Stop!’ he said. Then the wind and the water became quiet again.

27The disciples were very surprised. They asked each other, ‘What kind of man is this? Even the wind and the water obey him!’

28Jesus arrived at the other side of Lake Galilee. He came to a place where the Gadarene people lived. Two men who had bad spirits in them came to meet him. These men lived outside, among some graves. They were very strong and dangerous. People were too afraid to walk that way because of them.

29When the two men saw Jesus, they immediately shouted at him, ‘You are the Son of God! What are you doing here? Have you come to punish us before the right time comes?’

30A large group of pigs was eating there, not very far away.

31The bad spirits said to Jesus, ‘If you make us leave these men, please send us to those pigs. Let us go into them.’

32Jesus said to the bad spirits, ‘Go!’ So the bad spirits came out of the men and they went into the pigs. All the pigs rushed together down the hill into the lake. They all died there in the water.

33When this happened, the men who took care of the pigs ran away. They went into the town. They told people there everything that had happened to the men with the bad spirits in them.

34So everybody came out of the town to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they said, ‘Please go away. Leave our part of the country.’