Mark 5:17

Then the people began begging Jesus to depart from their region.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

In Context

16Those who had seen it told them what had happened to the man who had been possessed by demons, and they also told them about the pigs.

18When Jesus got into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged to go with him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24“ Leave us alone! What do yoʋ have to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have yoʋ come to destroy us? I know who yoʋ are—the Holy One of God.”

Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus' knees and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.”

Acts 16:39So they came and spoke to them in a conciliatory manner. As they escorted them out, they begged them to leave the city.

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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