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Mark 5:15 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. "
Mark 5:15
Verse in Context
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And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
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Mark 5:1
"And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes."
Mark 5:2
"And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,"
Mark 5:3
"Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:"
Mark 5:4
"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."
Mark 5:5
"And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones."
Mark 5:6
"But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,"
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