Mark 5:11

11 Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding,

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 And he was asking him "{What is your name}?" And he said to him, "My name [is] Legion, because we are many."

10 And he was imploring him many [times] that he would not send them out of the region.

11 Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding,

12 and they implored him, saying, "Send us to the pigs so that we may enter into them."

13 And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out [and] entered into the pigs, and the herd--about two thousand--rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.