Mark 5:12

And all the demons besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, so that we may enter into them.

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In The King James Version

And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

In Context

11Now there was near the mountain a great herd of swine feeding.

13And straightaway, Jesus allowed them. And the unclean spirits having come out, entered into the swine. And the herd stampeded down the slope into the sea, and were drowned in the sea. And there were about two thousand.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

2 Corinthians 2:11so that we may not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his methods.

Matthew Henry on Mark 5:2-21

The Expulsion of Legion. 1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and… Read the whole commentary →

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