Mark 5:17

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And they who saw the transaction, told them how it had been with the demoniac, and concerning the swine.

18And when he embarked on board the vessel, the demoniac besought him, that he might go with him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 5:8Then Simon Peter seeing it, fell down on his knees before Jesus, saying, Go from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord!

Acts 16:39So they came and spoke kindly to them, and fetching them out, besought them to depart from the city.

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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