Mark 5:12

and all the demons did call upon him, saying, 'Send us to the swine, that into them we may enter;'

Young's Literal Translation

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

11And there was there, near the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding,

13and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea — and they were about two thousand — and they were choked in the sea.

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Cross References

Job 2:5Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh — if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

2 Corinthians 2:11that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices 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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