So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
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Gill's Exposition
And he said unto them, go, &c. He gave them leave, as God did to Satan, in the case of Job; for without divine permission, these evil spirits cannot do anything to the bodies, souls, or estates of…
The same account of the demoniacs substantially is found in Mark 5:1-20, and Luk 8:26-38. Mat 8:28 The other side - The other side of the Sea of Tiberias. Country of the Gergesenes - Mark Mar 5:1 says…
We have here the story of Christ's casting the devils out of two men that were possessed. The scope of this chapter is to show the divine power of Christ, by the instances of his dominion over bodily…
Cambridge Bible
devils The Greek word here and in the parallel passages is a masculine and not a neuter form. The same word occurs in two other passages (Rev 16:14; Rev 18:2), and nowhere else in N. T.
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