Mark 5:12

So they besought Jesus. "Send us to the swine," they said, "so that we may enter into them."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

11Feeding there, on the mountain slope, was a great herd of swine.

13He gave them leave; and the foul spirits came out and entered into the swine, and the herd--about 2,000 in number--rushed headlong down the cliff into the Lake and were drowned in the Lake.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 2:11for fear Satan should gain an advantage over us. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

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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