Mark 5:12

And they said to him, Send us into the pigs, so that we may go into them.

Bible in Basic English

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 on the mountain side there was a great herd of pigs getting their food.

13And he let them do it. And the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they came to their death in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

2 Corinthians 2:11So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.

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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