Mark 5:12

Those bad spirits said to Jesus, “Just send us into that big mob of pigs over there.”

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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

11At that time there were a lot of pigs feeding on a hill next to the water.

13So Jesus sent the bad spirits out of the man and they went into the pigs. Straight away the pigs ran down the hill into the water and drowned.

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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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