Matthew 8:31

Moreover, the demons have-been-calling-aside same, saying, "If you-are-casting-out us, turn-upon to{us} to-come-off/away into the herd of{the pigs},"

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

30Moreover, [a] herd of{many pigs} being-grazed has-been-being far off/away-from of{same}.

32and he-says to{same}, "Be-withdrawing." Moreover, the[plural], come[ing]-out, come-off/away into the herd of{the pigs} and, behold, all the herd dash down of{the precipice} into the seawater and die-off/away in to{the waters}.

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Cross References

Mark 5:12and all the demons call-aside same, saying, "Dispatch us into the pigs, in-which-place we-may-come-into into same,"

Revelation 12:12Through the-same, be-being-gladdened, heavens and the tenting/lodging/tabernacling in to{same}. Woe to{the land} and to{the seawater}, that the devil/slanderous descends toward you having great [furious]desire, having-beheld that he-is-having scant season,"

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 →

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