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Mark 5:12

The evil spirits pleaded with him, “Send us to the pigs so we can enter them.”

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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

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

13Jesus allowed them to do this. The evil spirits left the man and went into the pigs. The whole herd, about two thousand, rushed down the steep cliff into the sea and drowned.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But reach out and hurt his bones and his flesh, and he will definitely curse you to your face.”

2 Corinthians 2:11In this way Satan will not be able to take us in, because we know the tricks he thinks up.

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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