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Mark 5:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs. "

Mark 5:16

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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.

15 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

16 Those who saw it declared to them what happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

17 They began to beg him to depart from their region.

18 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

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"They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth."

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Mark 1:27

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"They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? What can this new doctrine be? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”"

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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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