Mark 5:17

And they began to request him, that he would go from their border.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And those who had seen it told them how it occurred to him who had the demons, and also concerning the swine.

18And as he ascended the ship, the late demoniac requested that he might continue with him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24and said: What have we to do with thee? Jesus thou Nazarean. Hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee, who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Luke 5:8And when Simon Cephas saw it, he fell before the feet of Jesus, and said to him: I beseech thee, my Lord, that thou leave me, for I am a sinful man.

Acts 16:39and came to them, and entreated of them that they would come out, and that they would leave 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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