Mark 5:11

11 And ther was there nye vnto ye moutayns a greate heerd of swyne fedinge

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 axed him: what is thy name? And he answered sayinge: my name is Legion for we are many.

10 And he prayd him instantly that he wolde not sende the awaye out of the countre.

11 And ther was there nye vnto ye moutayns a greate heerd of swyne fedinge

12 and all the devyls besought him sayinge: sende vs into the heerde of swyne yt we maye enter in to them.

13 And anone Iesus gave them leave. And the vnclene spretes wet out and entred into ye swyne. And the heerd starteled and ran hedling into the see. They were about .ii.M. swyne and they were drouned in the see.