Matthew 8:31
Those demons, therefore, supplicated from him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go into the herd of swine.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
30Now there was at a distance from them a herd of many swine feeding.
Cross References
Mark 5:12And the devils besought him, saying, Send us into those swine, that into them we may enter.
Revelation 12:12Wherefore let the heavens be glad, And those who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea! Because the deceiver hath gone down to you, Having great indignation, Knowing that little time is to him.
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 →