Mark 5:12

And they intreated Him, saying, Send us into the swine, in order that we may go into them.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

11And there was a great herd of swine feeding in the mountain.

13And Jesus immediately permitted them. And the unclean spirits having gone out, came into the swine: and the herd rushed down a precipice into the sea, and there were about two thousand: and they were strangled in the sea.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11in order that we may not be gobbled up by Satan: for we are not ignorant of 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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