The fifth chapter of Mark's Gospel, a tight triptych of Christ's authority displayed across the three great enemies: demonic possession, chronic disease, and death itself. The chapter opens with the Gerasene demoniac (5:1-20), a man so possessed that no chains could hold him; Christ commands the legion of unclean spirits into the herd of swine and restores the man clothed, in his right mind, and sent home to testify. Mid-chapter the woman with the twelve-year hemorrhage touches Christ's garment in faith and is healed (5:25-34), an interruption within the larger narrative of Jairus' twelve-year-old daughter, whom Christ raises from death with the Aramaic Talitha cumi — damsel, arise (5:35-43). The three episodes together display Christ's comprehensive authority: over the spiritual realm, the physical realm, and the realm of death. Mark's tightly compressed account leaves no doubt: this is no ordinary teacher; this is the Lord.