Mark 5:12

And all the devils begged him, saying, Send us to the swine, that we may enter into them.

Revised King James New Testament

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

11Now there was a great herd of swine feeding there on the hillside.

13And Jesus gave them permission. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (there were about two thousand;) and they were drowned in the sea.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11Lest Satan should take advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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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