Theory question 105
Miracles of JesusSection B (Themes from the Four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles)
(a) Narrate Jesus' encounter with the Gerasene demoniac. (b) In what two ways can the society improve the conditions of mental patients?
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(a) Jesus came to the country of the Gerasenes; a man with an unclean spirit came from the tombs (Mark 5:1-2).
He lived among the tombs; chains could not hold him; night and day he cried out and cut himself (Mark 5:3-5).
He ran, worshipped Jesus and cried, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?" (Mark 5:6-7).
Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out and asked its name: "Legion; for we are many" (Mark 5:8-9).
The demons begged to enter the herd of swine; Jesus allowed it; about two thousand swine rushed into the sea and drowned (Mark 5:11-13).
People found the man clothed and in his right mind; afraid, they begged Jesus to leave (Mark 5:15-17).
Jesus told the man to go home and tell how much the Lord had done for him; he proclaimed it in the Decapolis (Mark 5:19-20).
(b) Any two: build and fund psychiatric hospitals; treat patients with love, not stigma; family and church support and prayer; rehabilitation and skills training; fighting drug abuse; public education on mental health.
Narrate Mark 5:1-20, then two ways.