Mark 5:17

so they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Then those who had seen it related to them all that had happened to the possessed man, as well as about the pigs;

18As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24“What do you want with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God!”

Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he threw himself down at Jesus’ knees, exclaiming, “Master, leave me, for I am a sinful man!”

Acts 16:39and went to the prison, and did their best to conciliate them. Then they took them out, and begged them to leave 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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