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Mark 5:12
All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”
Mark 5:12 · World English 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.”
They begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."
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In context
9 He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
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.
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.
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