Mark 5:12

The spirits begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs. How about it? Can we go into them?”

Nyangumarta (portions)

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

11On that rise there were pigs, many of them, 2,000, they were eating green grass.

13He said to them, “Yes, you can go to the pigs.” Right then they left that man, they all went to the pigs, the spirits went into them. Right then all the pigs ran down from the hill, they went straight into the water, they died in the water.

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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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