Mark 5:17

They began to beg him to depart from 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 saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

18As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25Now therefore, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the LORD our God’s voice any more, then we shall die.

Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

Mark 1:24saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who 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 16:39and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart 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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