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Mark 5:12 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.” "
Mark 5:12
Verse in Context
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10 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
12 All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
13 At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.
14 Those who fed the pigs fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.
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Mark 5:1
"They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes."
Mark 5:2
"When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs."
Mark 5:3
"He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains,"
Mark 5:4
"because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him."
Mark 5:5
"Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones."
Mark 5:6
"When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,"
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