11 Now there was there in the [a]mountains a great heard of swine, feeding.

12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

13 And incontinently Jesus gave them leave. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine, and the herd ran headlong from the high bank into the [b]sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked up in the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 5:11 This whole country is for the greater part of it very hilly, for the mountains of Galeed run through it.
  2. Mark 5:13 Strabo in the sixteenth book saith that in Gadaris there is a standing pool of very naughty water, which if beasts taste of, they shed their hair, nails, or hooves and horns.

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