Mark 5:17

And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell him that was possessed with devils, and concerning the swine.

18And as he was entering into the boat, he that had been possessed with devils besought him that he might be with him.

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Cross References

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

Job 21:14Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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

Luke 5:8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

Acts 16:39and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away 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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