Mark 5:14

The men who had been tending the pigs ran and reported in the town and the countryside what had happened. Many people went to see what had happened.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

In Context

13He permitted them to do that. So the evil spirits left the man and entered the pigs. The herd, which numbered about 2,000, rushed down the cliff into the lake, and drowned in the lake.

15They came to the place where Jesus was. Then they saw the man whom evil spirits had previously controlled. He was sitting there with clothes on and mentally sound. As a result, they became afraid because they thought that Jesus might destroy more of their property. (OR, they realized that Jesus must be very powerful.)

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Cross References

Luke 8:34When the men who were taking care of the pigs saw what happened, they ran! They told people inside the town and outside the town what had happened.

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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