Mark 5:17

And they began to beg him to depart from their borders.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

In Context

16And those who saw it related to them how it happened to the man who was demon-possessed, and about the swine.

18And as he entered into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed besought him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of LORD our God any more, then we shall die.

Job 21:14And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Mark 1:24saying, Oh no! What is with us and with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Did thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou are, the Holy man of God.

Luke 5:8But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

Acts 16:39And having come they besought them, and when they brought them out, they asked them to go out of the city.

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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