Mark 5:11

11 Feeding there, on the mountain slope, was a great herd of swine.

Mark 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 5:11

Now there was there, nigh unto the mountains
Where this man often was, ( Mark 5:5 ) according to Beza, the mountains of Galaad, which ran through that country, or the mountains that surrounded Tiberias. Some copies, as the Alexandrian copy and others, read "at", or "about the mountain", in the singular number. The Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions read, "about the mountain". The Syriac and Ethiopic, "at the mountain"; so in ( Luke 8:32 ) ,

a great herd of swine feeding;
on one side of the mountain, or mountains; it may be called a great one, for there were about two thousand hogs in it.

Mark 5:11 In-Context

9 Jesus also questioned him. "What is your name?" He said. "Legion," he replied, "for there are a host of us."

10 And he earnestly entreated Him not to send them away out of the country.

11 Feeding there, on the mountain slope, was a great herd of swine.

12 So they besought Jesus. "Send us to the swine," they said, "so that we may enter into them."

13 He gave them leave; and the foul spirits came out and entered into the swine, and the herd--about 2,000 in number--rushed headlong down the cliff into the Lake and were drowned in the Lake.