Mark 5:12

So all the demons implored Him, saying, “Send us into the swine, that we may enter them.”

English Majority Text (NT)

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

11Now there was a large herd of swine feeding there near the mountain.

13And immediately Jesus gave them permission. And when the unclean spirits came out, they entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, (there were about two thousand) and drowned in the sea.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11lest we be taken advantage of by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his devices. 1 Triumph in Christ

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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