Mark 5:12

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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

13And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits came out and entered into the swine; and the herd (they were about two thousand,) rushed down a steep place into the sea, and were strangled in the sea.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11lest an advantage should be taken of us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

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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