Mark 5:17

And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And they that had seen [it] related to them how it had happened to the [man] possessed by demons, and concerning the swine.

18And as he went on board ship, the man that had been possessed by demons besought him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25And now, why should we die? for this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more, we shall die.

Job 21:14And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Mark 1:24saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.

Luke 5:8But Simon Peter, seeing it, fell at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

Acts 16:39And they came and besought them, and having brought them out, asked them to go out of the city.

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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