Mark 5:17

Then they began entreating Him to depart from their district.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16And those who had seen it told them the particulars of what had happened to the demoniac, and all about the swine.

18As He was embarking, the man who had been possessed asked permission to accompany Him.

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Cross References

Mark 1:24"What have you to do with us, Jesus the Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--God's Holy One."

Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at the knees of Jesus, and exclaimed, "Master, leave my boat, for I am a sinful man."

Acts 16:39Accordingly they came and apologized to them; and, bringing them out, asked them to leave 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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