Matthew 8:31
The demons pleaded with him, “If you're going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
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30In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
Cross References
Mark 5:12The evil spirits pleaded with him, “Send us to the pigs so we can enter them.”
Revelation 12:12So celebrate, heaven, and everyone who lives there! Mourn, earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you and is very angry, knowing his time is short.”
Matthew Henry on Matthew 8:29-34
The Devils Cast Out of Two Men. 28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30 And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding. 31 So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer… Read the whole commentary →