Mark 5:17

and they began to call on Him to go away from their borders.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16and those having seen [it], declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the pigs;

18And He having gone into the boat, the demoniac was calling on Him that he may be with Him,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25And now, why do we die? For this great fire consumes us if we add to hear the voice of our God YHWH anymore—then we have died.

Job 21:14And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired.

Mark 1:24saying, “What [regards] us and You, Jesus the Nazarene? You came to destroy us; I have known You, who You are—the Holy One of God.”

Luke 5:8And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, “Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O Lord”;

Acts 16:39and having come, they implored them, and having brought [them] forth, they were asking [them] to go forth 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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