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The Demons and the Pigs

Mark 5:17

In 9 translations

BSB
And the people began to beg Jesus to leave their region.
KJV
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
WEB
They began to beg him to depart from their region.
ASV
And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders.
LSV
and they began to call on Him to go away from their borders.
YLT
and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.
DBY
And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts.
DRC
And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts.
GNV
Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ἤρξαντο παρακαλεῖν αὐτὸν ἀπελθεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτῶν.
RP2018
Καὶ ἤρξαντο παρακαλεῖν αὐτὸν ἀπελθεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτῶν.
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ἤρξαντο παρακαλεῖν αὐτὸν ἀπελθεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτῶν.
SCR1894
και ηρξαντο παρακαλειν αυτον απελθειν απο των οριων αυτων

Who and where

◆ Gadarene Demoniacs

People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 8:34Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.
  • Mark 1:24“What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
  • Luke 8:37Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.
  • Genesis 26:16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
  • Mark 5:7And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!”
  • Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
  • Acts 16:39They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.
  • Luke 5:8When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.”
  • 1 Kings 17:18“O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
  • Deuteronomy 5:25But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.

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