Mark 5:12

And they (the ruchot hatemeiot, the shedim) implored Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, saying, Send us into the chazirim, so that we may go into them.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

11Now there was a large herd of chazirim feeding nearby on the hillside.

13And he permitted them. And having come out, the ruchot hatemeiot entered into the chazirim. And the herd of chazirim rushed down the slope into the lake, and there were about two thousand of them, and they were drowned in the lake. + 5:13 Mic 7:19

Read all of Mark 5

Cross References

Job 2:5But stretch forth Thine yad now, and touch his etzem and his basar, and he will curse Thee to Thy face.

2 Corinthians 2:11Lest we should be outsmarted by HaSatan; + 2:11 Lk 22:31 for we do not lack da'as of his kesharim (conspiracies).

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Mark 5:12