Mark 5:11
Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
In Context
10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
12All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 14:8The pig, because it has a split hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat their meat, and you shall not touch their carcasses.
Isaiah 66:3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; 2 he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; 2 he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; 2 he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses a vain striving of iniquity idol. 1 Yes, they have chosen their own ways, 2 and their soul delights in their abominations: 1
Luke 8:32Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.
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 →