Mark 5:12

All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may 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 on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

13At once Yeshua gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

2 Corinthians 2:11that no advantage may be gained over us 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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