Mark 5:17

and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16and those having seen [it], declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;

18And he having gone into the boat, the demoniac was calling on him that he may be with him,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 5:25'And, now, why do we die? for consume us doth this great fire — if we add to hear the voice of Jehovah our God any more — then we have died.

Job 21:14And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

Mark 1:24saying, 'Away! what — to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art — the Holy One of God.'

Luke 5:8And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, 'Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O lord;'

Acts 16:39and having come, they besought them, and having brought [them] forth, they were asking [them] to go forth 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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