Matthew 8:31
New International Version
The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

New Living Translation
So the demons begged, “If you cast us out, send us into that herd of pigs.”

English Standard Version
And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”

Berean Standard Bible
So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

Berean Literal Bible
And the demons were begging Him, saying, "If You cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs."

King James Bible
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

New King James Version
So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine.”

New American Standard Bible
And the demons begged Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

NASB 1995
The demons began to entreat Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

NASB 1977
And the demons began to entreat Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

Legacy Standard Bible
And the demons began to plead with Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

Amplified Bible
The demons began begging Him, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

Christian Standard Bible
“If you drive us out,” the demons begged him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If You drive us out,” the demons begged Him, “send us into the herd of pigs.”

American Standard Version
And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But those demons were begging him and saying, “If you cast us out, allow us to go into the herd of pigs.”

Contemporary English Version
So the demons begged Jesus, "If you force us out, please send us into those pigs!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.

English Revised Version
And the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The demons begged Jesus, "If you're going to force us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

Good News Translation
So the demons begged Jesus, "If you are going to drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

International Standard Version
So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, "If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

Literal Standard Version
and the demons were calling on Him, saying, “If You cast us forth, permit us to go away into the herd of the pigs”;

Majority Standard Bible
So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, permit us to go off into the herd of pigs.”

New American Bible
The demons pleaded with him, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

NET Bible
Then the demons begged him, "If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."

New Revised Standard Version
The demons begged him, “If you cast us out, send us into the herd of swine.”

New Heart English Bible
And the demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."

Webster's Bible Translation
So the demons besought him, saying, If thou expellest us, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

Weymouth New Testament
So the demons entreated Him. "If Thou drivest us out," they said, "send us into the herd of swine."

World English Bible
The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”

Young's Literal Translation
and the demons were calling on him, saying, 'If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Demons and the Pigs
30In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding. 31So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.” 32“Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.…

Cross References
Matthew 4:24
News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed--and He healed them.

Matthew 7:6
Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

Matthew 8:30
In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.

Matthew 8:32
"Go!" He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.


Treasury of Scripture

So the devils sought him, saying, If you cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

Mark 5:7,12
And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not…

Luke 8:30-33
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him…

Revelation 12:12
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

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Matthew 8
1. Jesus cleanses the leper;
5. heals the centurion's servant,
14. Peter's mother in law,
16. and many others;
18. shows the cost of following him;
23. stills the storm on the sea;
28. drives the demons out of two men possessed;
31. and tells them to go into the pigs.














(31) So the devils besought him.--As St. Mark gives the words, "that He should not send them out of the country," or district, in which they were; as in St. Luke's report, "that He would not command them to go out into the deep," i.e., the abyss, the "bottomless pit" of Revelation 9:1-2; Revelation 9:11. The words of the man are as those of the demons with whom he identifies himself. He shrinks from the thought of wandering in dry places, "seeking rest, and finding none" (Matthew 12:43), or being compelled to flee, like Asmodeus, into "the utmost parts of Egypt" (Tobit 8:3), or, worst fate of all, to be sent into the "abyss," which was the ultimate doom of evil. And so he, as one with them, suggests another alternative: "If Thou cast us out, send us into the herd of swine. If the power to terrify and disturb men is taken from us, let us, at least, retain the power to destroy brutes."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
So
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

demons
δαίμονες (daimones)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1142: An evil-spirit, demon. From daio; a d?Mon or supernatural spirit.

begged
παρεκάλουν (parekaloun)
Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.

[Jesus],
αὐτὸν (auton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

“If
Εἰ (Ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

You drive us out,
ἐκβάλλεις (ekballeis)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 1544: To throw (cast, put) out; I banish; I bring forth, produce. From ek and ballo; to eject.

send us
ἀπόστειλον (aposteilon)
Verb - Aorist Imperative Active - 2nd Person Singular
Strong's 649: From apo and stello; set apart, i.e. to send out literally or figuratively.

into
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

the
τὴν (tēn)
Article - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

herd
ἀγέλην (agelēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 34: A flock, herd. From ago; a drove.

of pigs.”
χοίρων (choirōn)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 5519: A swine, hog, sow. Of uncertain derivation; a hog.


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