Mark 5:12

So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

Berean Standard Bible

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

11There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.

13He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

2 Corinthians 2:11in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.

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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