Matthew 8:30
Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
In Context
31The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
Cross References
Leviticus 11:7The pig, because it has a split hoof, and is cloven-footed, but doesn’t chew the cud, is unclean to you.
Isaiah 65:3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
Mark 5:11Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.
Luke 15:15He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
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 →