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Mark 5:12
And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Mark 5:12 · Geneva Bible
Mark 5:12 in other translations
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
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In context
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And hee prayed him instantly, that hee would not send them away out of the countrey.
11 Now there was there in the mountaines a great heard of swine, feeding.
12 And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.
14 And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they came to Iesus, and sawe him that had bene possessed with the deuil, and had the legion, sit both clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraide.
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