Mark 5:12
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
KJV
καὶ παρεκάλεσαν αὐτὸν λέγοντες· πέμψον ἡμᾶς εἰς τοὺς χοίρους, ἵνα εἰς αὐτοὺς εἰσέλθωμεν.
Greek NT
Et deprecabantur eum spiritus, dicentes : Mitte nos in porcos ut in eos introëamus.
Vulgate
And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
ASV
And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
εἰσέρχομαι
eiserchomai
verb · 195×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πέμπω
pempo
verb · 79×
παρακαλέω
parakaleo
verb · 108×
χοῖρος
choiros
noun · 12×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: αὐτὸν | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτὸν | RP: + πάντες οἱ δαίμονες
- αὐτὸν — SBLGNT
- αὐτὸν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + πάντες οἱ δαίμονες — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- 2Cor 2:11 — Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- Job 1:10 — Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
- Luke 22:31 — And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
- Matt 8:31 — So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.