Mark 5:17

Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.

18And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25Now therefore, why should we dye? for this great fire wil consume vs: if we heare ye voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye.

Job 21:14They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

Mark 1:24Saying, Ah, what haue we to do with thee, O Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I knowe thee what thou art, euen that holy one of God.

Luke 5:8Now when Simon Peter saw it, he fel down at Iesus knees, saying, Lord, go from me: for I am a sinfull man.

Acts 16:39Then came they and praied them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the citie.

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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