Mark 5:17

And they began to beseech him, to depart from their bounds.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And the beholders narrated to them, how it happened to the demonized man, and concerning the swine.

18And, as he was entering into the boat, he who had been demonized was beseeching him, that, with him, he might be.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25Now, therefore why should we die? for this great fire, will consume, us,—if we ourselves, hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, we shall die.

Job 21:14Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.

Mark 1:24saying—What have we in common with thee, Jesus of Nazareth? Hast thou come to destroy us? I know thee, who thou art, The Holy One of God.

Luke 5:8And Simon, beholding, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying—Depart from me! Because, a sinful man, am I, O Lord!

Acts 16:39and came, and besought them, and, leading them out, went on to request them to depart from 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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