Mark 5:17

Christian Standard Bible ®

Then they began to beg him to leave their region.

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

King James Version
And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

English Standard Version
And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.

New American Standard Bible
And they began to beg Him to leave their region.

New Century Version
Then the people began to beg Jesus to leave their area.

Amplified Bible
So the people began to beg with Jesus to leave their region.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they began to implore Him to leave their region.

Legacy Standard Bible
And they began to plead with Him to leave their region.

Berean Standard Bible
And the people began to beg Jesus to leave their region.

Contemporary English Version
Then the people started begging Jesus to leave their part of the country.

Complete Jewish Bible
and the people began begging Yeshua to leave their district.

Darby Translation
And they began to beg him to depart from their coasts.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the people began to beg Jesus to leave their area.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.

George Lamsa Translation
So they began to urge him to leave their border.

Good News Translation
So they asked Jesus to leave their territory.

Lexham English Bible
And they began to urge him to depart from their region.

Literal Translation
And they began to beg Him to go away from their borders.

American Standard Version
And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders.

Bible in Basic English
And they made a request to him to go out of their country.

Hebrew Names Version
They began to beg him to depart from their borders.

International Standard Version
So they began to beg Jesushim">[fn] to leave their territory.Matthew 8:34; Acts 16:39;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And they began to beg of him to go from their coast.

Murdock Translation
And they began to request him, that he would go from their border.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they beganne to pray hym, that he woulde depart out of their coastes.

English Revised Version
And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders.

World English Bible
They began to beg him to depart from their borders.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they prayed him to depart out of their coasts.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then they began entreating Him to depart from their district.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei bigunnen to preie hym, that he schulde go a wei fro her coostis.

Update Bible Version
And they began to urge him to depart from their borders.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they began to pray him to depart out of their borders.

New English Translation
Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their region.

New King James Version
Then they began to plead with Him to depart from their region.

New Living Translation
And the crowd began pleading with Jesus to go away and leave them alone.

New Life Bible
Then they asked Jesus to leave their country.

New Revised Standard
Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they began to beseech him, to depart from their bounds.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts.

Revised Standard Version
And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their neighborhood.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they begane to praye him that he wolde departe fro their coostes.

Young's Literal Translation
and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they beganne to praye him, that he wolde departe out of their coastes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
they intreated him to withdraw from their territories.

Simplified Cowboy Version
begged Jesus to leave the area.

Contextual Overview

¹They came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. ²As soon as he got out of the boat, a man with an unclean spirit came out of the tombs and met him. ³He lived in the tombs, and no one was able to restrain him anymore—not even with a chain— ⁴because he often had been bound with shackles and chains, but had torn the chains apart and smashed the shackles. No one was strong enough to subdue him. ⁵Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains, he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ⁶When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him. ⁷And he cried out with a loud voice, “What do you have to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you before God, don’t torment me!” ⁸For he had told him, “Come out of the man, you unclean ⁹“What is your name?” ¹⁰And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the region.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mark 5:7, Mark 1:24, Genesis 26:16, Deuteronomy 5:25, 1 Kings 17:18, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Matthew 8:34, Luke 5:8, Luke 8:37, Acts 16:39

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:12 - Let us alone Matthew 16:4 - And he Mark 5:18 - prayed Acts 13:50 - and expelled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they began to pray him,.... That is, the inhabitants of the city of Gadara, and of the villages round about, very earnestly importuned him

to depart out of their coasts; fearing, lest for their sins, some sorer judgment should fall upon them, than the loss of their swine; since they perceived he was a person of great power and authority; which shows great ignorance and worldly mindedness: they knew not how great a person they had among them; that he was the Son of God, and Saviour of the world: they might have known from the miracles wrought, that he was a very wonderful and extraordinary person; but then they considered him as one endued with great power, rather, to do them hurt than good; as one sent to scourge them for their sins, than to save them from them: such very contrary notions have carnal men of Christ; they are afraid of being sufferers, or losers by him: they do not care to part with their swinish lusts for him; these they prefer to a Saviour, and love the world, and the things of it, more than he, and therefore are not worthy of him;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this account of the demoniacs fully explained in the notes at Matthew 8:28-34.

Mark 5:4

He had been often bound with fetters and chains - Efforts had been made to confine him, but his great strength - his strength increased by his malady - had prevented it. There often appears to be a great increase of strength produced by insanity, and what is here stated in regard to this maniac often occurs in Palestine and elsewhere now. Dr. Thomson (“The Land and the Book,” vol. i. p. 213) says respecting this case: “There are some very similar at the present day - furious and dangerous maniacs, who wander about the mountains, and sleep in tombs and caves. In their worst paroxysms they are quite unmanageable and prodigiously strong.” Luke 8:27 says of him that “he were no clothes,” or that he was naked, which is also implied in the account in Mark, who tells us that after he was healed he was found “clothed and in his right mind,” Mark 4:15. This is often a striking characteristic of insanity. Dr. Pritchard (on “Insanity,” p. 26) quotes from an Italian physician’s description of raving madness or mania: “A striking and characteristic circumstance is the propensity to go quite naked. The patient tears his clothes to tatters.” So Dr. Thomson (“The Land and the Book,” vol. i. p. 213) says: “It is one of the most common traits in this madness that the victims refuse to wear clothes. I have often seen them absolutely naked in the crowded streets of Beirut and Sidon. There are also cases in which they run wildly about the country and frighten the whole neighborhood. These poor wretches are held in the greatest reverence by Muslims, who, through some monstrous perversion of ideas, believe them to be inspired and peculiarly holy.”

Mark 5:5

Cutting himself with stones - These are all marks of a madman - a man bereft of reason, a wretched outcast, strong and dangerous. The inspired penman says that this madness was caused by an unclean spirit, or by his being under the influence of a devil. That this account is not irrational, see the notes at Matthew 4:24.

Mark 5:6

Worshipped him - Bowed down before him; rendered him homage. This was an acknowledgment of his power, and of his control over fallen spirits.

Mark 5:9

My name is Legion - See the notes at Matthew 8:29.

Mark 5:15

Sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind - There could be no doubt of the reality of this miracle. The man had been well known. He had long dwelt among the tombs, an object of terror and alarm. To see him all at once peaceful, calm, and rational, was proof that it was the power of God only that had done it.

They were afraid - They were awed, as in the presence of God. The word does not mean here that they feared that any evil would happen to them, but that they were affected with awe; they felt that God was there; they were struck with astonishment at what Jesus had done.

Mark 5:19

Jesus suffered him not - Various reasons have been conjectured why Jesus did not suffer this man to go with him. It might have been that he wished to leave him among the people as a conclusive evidence of his power to work miracles. Or it might have been that the man feared that if Jesus left him the devils would return, and that Jesus told him to remain to show to him that the cure was complete, and that he had power over the devils when absent as well as when present. But the probable reason is, that he desired to restore him to his family and friends. Jesus was unwilling to delay the joy of his friends, and to prolong their anxiety by suffering him to remain away from them.

Mark 5:20

In Decapolis - See the notes at Matthew 4:25.

How great things ... - This was the natural expression of right feeling at being cured of such a calamity. So the desire of sinners freed from sin is to honor Jesus, and to invite the world to participate in the same salvation, and to join them in doing honor to the Son of God. Compare Psalms 66:16.