Mark 5:12

And the devils besought him, saying, Send us into those swine, that into them we may enter.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 at the mountain there was a great herd of swine feeding.

13And he suffered them. And those unclean spirits went forth and entered into the swine; and that herd ran to the rock, and plunged into the sea, as two thousand, and were drowned in the waters.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11lest Satana get the advantage of you; for we know his devices.

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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