Mark 5:12

And the demons besought him, and said: Send us upon those swine, that we may enter them.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 there by the mountain, a great herd of swine grazing.

13And he permitted them. And those unclean spirits went out, and entered the swine: and the herd, of about two thousand, ran to a precipice, and fell into the sea, and were strangled in the waters.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11lest Satan should overreach us; for we know 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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