Mark 5:13 meaning and explanation

He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.

Mark 5:13, Berean Standard Bible

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Jesus has crossed the Sea of Galilee into Gentile territory, where a man tormented by many demons names himself Legion, a Roman military term for a large unit. The demons beg not to be sent out of the region, and Jesus permits them to enter a herd of about two thousand pigs feeding nearby.

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