Mark 5:12

and they besought him, saying—Send us into the swine, that, into them, we may enter;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 there, near the mountain, a large herd of swine, feeding;

13and he suffered them. And the impure spirits, going out, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the cliff into the sea, about two thousand, and were choked in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh,—verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.

2 Corinthians 2:11Lest we should be overreached by Satan, for, of his thoughts, we are not ignorant.

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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