Mark 5:12

and they begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs; let us enter into them.”

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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 a great herd of pigs was there feeding on the hill,

13So he allowed them; the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs, and they rushed down the steep hill into the sea, and about two thousand pigs drowned in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now and touch his bones and his flesh, and see if he does not curse you to your face.”

2 Corinthians 2:11This is so that Satan will not trick us. For we are not ignorant of his plans.

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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