Mark 5:12
So the evil spirits pleaded with Jesus, “Allow us to go to the pigs in order that we might enter them!”
Translation for Translators
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
11At the same time, a large herd of pigs was ◄grazing/rooting for food► nearby on the hillside.
Cross References
Job 2:5But if you harm his body [MTY], he will surely curse you openly [IDM]!”
2 Corinthians 2:11I want you to forgive him so that Satan will not be able to take advantage of the problems among us and make the situation worse. We know very well [LIT] that Satan is always planning to cause problems among us.
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 →