Mark 5:12

And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

11And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.

13And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, and were stifled in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.

2 Corinthians 2:11That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

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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