The Demons and the Pigs
Matthew 8:31
In 9 translations
- BSB
- So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
- KJV
- So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
- WEB
- The demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.”
- ASV
- And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.
- LSV
- and the demons were calling on Him, saying, “If You cast us forth, permit us to go away into the herd of the pigs”;
- YLT
- 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;'
- DBY
- and the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.
- DRC
- And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.
- GNV
- And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ἐπίτρεψον (“do allow”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἀπόστειλον (“do send away”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἀπελθεῖν (“to go away”).
- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἡμᾶς (“us”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἡμῖν (“us”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐπίτρεψον ἡμῖν ἀπελθεῖν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- οἱ δὲ δαίμονες παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν λέγοντες· Εἰ ἐκβάλλεις ἡμᾶς, ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίρων.
- RP2018
- Οἱ δὲ δαίμονες παρεκάλουν αὐτόν, λέγοντες, Εἰ ἐκβάλλεις ἡμᾶς, ἐπίτρεψον ἡμῖν ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίρων.
- TR-Boyd
- Οἱ δὲ δαίμονες παρεκάλουν αὐτόν, λέγοντες, Εἰ ἐκβάλλεις ἡμᾶς, ἐπίτρεψον ἡμῖν ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίρων.
- SCR1894
- οι δε δαιμονες παρεκαλουν αυτον λεγοντες ει εκβαλλεις ημας επιτρεψον ημιν απελθειν εις την αγελην των χοιρων
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◆ Gadarene Demoniacs
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Cross-references most cited first
- Revelation 20:1–2Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
- Luke 8:30–33“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him. And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss. There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was…
- Revelation 12:12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time.”
- Mark 5:12So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
- Mark 5:7And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!”
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