Mark 5:17
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
Mark 5:17 in other translations
| BSB | And the people began to beg Jesus to leave their region. |
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| WEB | They began to beg him to depart from their region. |
| ASV | And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders. |
| YLT | and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders. |
| DARBY | And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts. |
| BBE | And they made a request to him to go out of their country. |
| Webster | And they began to pray him to depart out of their borders. |
What does Mark 5:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 5:1-20
Some openly wilful sinners are like this madman. The commands of the law are as chains and fetters, to restrain sinners from their wicked courses; but they break those bands in sunder; and it is an evidence of the power of the devil in them. A legion of soldiers consisted of six thousand men, or more. What multitudes of fallen spirits there must be, and all enemies to God and man, when here was a legion in one poor…
Mark 5:17 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 5:17
- Matthew 8:34
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
- Mark 1:24
Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
- Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
- Genesis 26:16
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
- Mark 5:7
And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
- Acts 16:39
And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired them to depart out of the city.
- Luke 5:8
When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
- Job 21:14-15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- 1 Kings 17:18
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son?
- Deuteronomy 5:25
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.
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Context
- Mark 5:16
And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
- Mark 5:17
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
- Mark 5:18
And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
Mark 5:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y comenzaron á rogarle que se fuese de los términos de ellos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et ils se mirent à le prier de s’en aller de leur territoire. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und sie fingen an, ihm zuzureden, aus ihren Grenzen wegzugehen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et rogare cœperunt eum ut discederet de finibus eorum. |