Mark 5:11
Now on the mountain side there was a great herd of pigs getting their food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
In Context
10And he made strong prayers to him not to send them away out of the country.
12And they said to him, Send us into the pigs, so that we may go into them.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:8And the pig is unclean to you, because though it has a division in the horn of its foot, its food does not come back; their flesh may not be used for food or their dead bodies touched by you.
Isaiah 66:3A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
Luke 8:32Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.
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 →