Mark 5:12
Good News Translation
So the spirits begged Jesus, "Send us to the pigs, and let us go into them."

New Revised Standard Version
and the unclean spirits begged him, “Send us into the swine; let us enter them.”

Contemporary English Version
So the evil spirits begged Jesus, "Send us into those pigs! Let us go into them."

New American Bible
And they pleaded with him, “Send us into the swine. Let us enter them.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

Job 1:10-12 Hast thou not made a fence for him, and his house, and all his substance round about, blessed the works of his hands, and his possession hath increased on the earth? . . .

Job 2:5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Luke 22:31,32 And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. . . .

2 Corinthians 2:11 That we be not overreached by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his devices.

1 Peter 5:8 Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour.

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
11And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding. 12And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 13And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, were stifled in the sea.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy to dogs; neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turning upon you, they tear you.

Mark 5:11
And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.

Mark 5:13
And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, were stifled in the sea.

Mark 5:11
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