Mark 5:17

And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And they who saw it related to them how it befell him who was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine.

18And as he was entering into the ship, he that had been possessed with demons besought him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24saying: What have we to do with thee[1:24], Jesus, Nazarene! Didst thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 5:8And Simon Peter, seeing it, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying: Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

Acts 16:39And they came and besought them, and bringing them out, entreated them to depart 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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