Mark 5:11

11 Now a large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.

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 "What is your name?" He asked him. "My name is Legion," he answered Him, "because we are many."

10 And he kept begging Him not to send them out of the region.

11 Now a large herd of pigs was there, feeding on the hillside.

12 The demons begged Him, "Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them."

13 And He gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned there.