Mark 5:12

All the demons begged Jesus, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may go into them.”

Text-Critical English NT

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 pigs feeding there near the mountain.

13So he immediately gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs. Then the herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11so that we might not be exploited by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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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