Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Mark 5:12
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Verse 12. ALL the devils] , all, is omitted by many MSS. and versions; Griesbach leaves it out of the text. is omitted also by several: Griesbach leaves it doubtful. Probably it should be read thus, And they besought him, saying.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
12. And all the devils besought him,saying“if thou cast us out” (Mt8:31).
Send us into the swine, thatwe may enter into themHad they spoken out all their mind,perhaps this would have been it: “If we must quit our hold ofthis man, suffer us to continue our work of mischief in another form,that by entering these swine, and thus destroying the people’sproperty, we may steel their hearts against Thee!”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And all the devils besought him,…. The whole legion of them, not only their chief, in the name of the rest, but all of them earnestly entreated him; they were all humble supplicants, not from love, but fear, and with a view to do mischief: though the word “all” is omitted in some copies, as it is in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Persic versions; neither has the Ethiopic the word devils, but both are retained in the Arabic version:
saying, send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. The Persic version renders it, “seeing thou drivest us from the man, give leave that we may enter into the swine”: which is rather a paraphrase than a version, and expresses the sense very well. They chose to be any where, rather than depart the country; and especially than to be sent into the deep, the abyss, or bottomless pit; and they chose to be sent into the swine, as being impure creatures like themselves; and no doubt with a view to destroy them, that they might satisfy themselves as much as they could with doing mischief; though not to that degree they would, nor to those persons they were desirous of; and so bring as much odium and reproach upon Christ as they could, who gave them leave. The devils are unwearied in doing mischief, they cannot rest unless they are about it; and they choose to be concerned in doing it in a lesser way, if they are not allowed to do it as largely as they would; if they are not suffered to touch the lives of men, or ruin their souls, it, is some satisfaction to them to be suffered to hurt their bodies; and if that is no longer permitted, rather than be doing nothing, they are desirous of doing injury to irrational creatures, the property of men; all which shows the malice and wickedness of these evil spirits: [See comments on Mt 8:31].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
1) “And all the devils besought Him, saying,” (kai parekalesan auton legontes) “And they, the legion of deranged spirits, appealed to Him repeatedly saying,” to Him, to Jesus, Lord over ail the earth and demons too, Joh 3:35; Joh 5:22; Joh 5:27; Joh 5:30; Act 17:31.
2) “Send us into the swine,” (pempson hemas eis tous choirous) “Just send us indiscriminately into or among the pigs,” or permit us to enter into the herd of feeding swine. Even demon spirits have their rebellious positions of destruction under restrictions of the permissive will of God, for a temporary time, Jud 1:6; 2Pe 2:4; Mat 25:41.
3) “That we may enter into them.” (hina eis autous eiselthomen) “In order that we may enter directly into them,” to control their actions, the behavior of the pigs. 0 that all men might realize that they too exist under the gracious mercies and- permissive will of God, in whom they daily live, move, and have their being, their existence, La 3:22, 23; Act 17:26-27.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
12. Send us into the swine From this we should infer, 1. That the infernals preferred a human residence to a bestial one; but they preferred a bestial one to their own infernal home. 2. That it may be, at certain periods of the world, possible for the infernal natures to possess a brute body, especially of such unclean brutes as are congenial with their own uncleanness.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
Ver. 12. See Trapp on “ Mat 8:31 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Mar 5:12 . : send us into the swine ; no chance of permission to enter into men ; no expectation either of the ensuing catastrophe.
Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson
devils = demons.
into. Greek. eis. App-104.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Mar 5:12. , all) with one consent.
Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament
Job 1:10-12, Job 2:5, Luk 22:31, Luk 22:32, 2Co 2:11, 1Pe 5:8
Reciprocal: Mat 8:31 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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All the devils besought denotes the same thought set forth in verse 9 concerning a spokesman who represented the others.