Mark 5:17

And they made a request to him to go out of their country.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil spirits, and of the fate of the pigs.

18And when he was getting into the boat, the man in whom had been the evil spirits had a great desire to come with him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

Job 21:14Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

Mark 1:24Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.

Luke 5:8But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.

Acts 16:39Then they came and made prayers to them, requesting them, when they had taken them out, to go away from the town.

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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