Mark 5:17
And the people began to beg Jesus to leave their region.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
In Context
16Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.
18As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by the demons begged to go with Him.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:25But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Mark 1:24“What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
Acts 16:39They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave 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 →