Mark 5:12

And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 there was there in the mountaines a great heard of swine, feeding.

13And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

2 Corinthians 2:11Lest Satan should circumuent vs: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.

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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