Mark 5:17

Then they began to beg Jesus to depart from their district.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And those who had been eye-witnesses told them what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine.

18As he was getting into the boat the man who had been demon-possessed kept begging to go with him; but he said,

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Cross References

Mark 1:24"What business have you with us, you Jesus of Nazareth? Are you come to destroy us? I know you who you are, the Holy One of God."

Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at the knees of Jesus, exclaiming, "Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man!"

Acts 16:39So they came and conciliated them, and after taking them out of prison, begged them to leave the town.

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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