Mark 5:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then the spirits begged Jesus earnestly not to send them away out of the region.

Cross References

Mark 3:22

And the experts in the Law of Moses who had come down from Jerusalem were saying [Note: This followed the incident of Jesus healing a man with an evil spirit. See Matt. 12:22-28], “He has Beelzebub [in him],” and “He is driving out evil spirits by [the power of] the chief of evil spirits.”

Mark 5:11

On the side of a [nearby] mountain, a large herd of [wild (?)] hogs was grazing.

Mark 5:13

And He gave them permission to do it. So, the evil spirits went out of the man’s body and entered the bodies of the hogs. The herd then rushed down the cliff into the lake. There were about two thousand that drowned in the lake.

Mark 5:9

Then He asked [the evil spirit], “What is your name?” And he answered Him, “My name is ‘Legion,’ [Note: This word means a number consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000], for there are many of us [i.e., evil spirits].”