Mark 5:17

Then they began to implore Him to go away from their region.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And those who saw it related to them how it happened to him who had been demon-possessed, and about the swine.

18And when He got into the boat, he who had been demon-possessed implored Him that he might be with Him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, 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 it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

Acts 16:39And coming, they appealed to them, and bringing them out, they asked them to depart from 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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