Mark 5:12

and they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine that we may enter into them.

Darby Translation

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 there was there just at the mountain a great herd of swine feeding;

13And Jesus [immediately] allowed them. And the unclean spirits going out entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep slope, into the sea (about two thousand), and were choked in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!

2 Corinthians 2:11that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of *his* thoughts.

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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