Mark 5:17

Then they started to beg him to leave their region.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Those who had seen what happened to the demon-possessed man told them about it in detail, and they also them told about the pigs.

18When he was getting into the boat, the demon-possessed man begged him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25But why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, we will die.

Job 21:14They say to God, 'Depart from us 1 for we do not wish any knowledge of your ways. 1

Mark 1:24saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the Holy One of God!”

Luke 5:8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

Acts 16:39The magistrates came and apologized to them and brought them out, asking them them to go away from 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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