Mark 5:16

16 And they that sawe it tolde them how it had happened vnto him that was possessed with the devyll: and also of the swyne.

Mark 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:16

And they that saw it
Not the keepers of the swine, for they were fled and gone; but others that were eyewitnesses of the whole affair, who lived in houses hard by, or were working in the fields; or the disciples of Christ:

told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil;
gave a particular account, how, upon first sight of Christ, he ran to meet him, and fell down and worshipped him; how Christ ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him; and how he was dispossessed of a legion of devils by a word speaking:

and also concerning the swine;
how, at the request of the devils, and by the leave of Christ, they entered into them; upon which they ran mad; and betaking themselves to the rocks by the sea side, fell down the precipice, and were suffocated in the sea.

Mark 5:16 In-Context

14 And the swyne heerdes fleed and tolde it in ye cyte and in the countre. And they came out for to se what had hapened:

15 and came to Iesus and sawe hym that was vexed wt the fende and had the legio syt both clothed and in his right mynde and were afrayed.

16 And they that sawe it tolde them how it had happened vnto him that was possessed with the devyll: and also of the swyne.

17 And they begane to praye him that he wolde departe fro their coostes.

18 And when he was come in to the shyppe he that had ye devyll prayed him that he myght be with him.