31and the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.


In Context

28 And there met him, when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, two possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding dangerous, so that no one was able to pass by that way.

29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Son of God? hast thou come here before the time to torment us?

30 Now there was, a great way off from them, a herd of many swine feeding;

31 and the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

32 And he said to them, Go. And they, going out, departed into the herd of swine; and lo, the whole herd of swine rushed down the steep slope into the sea, and died in the waters.

33 But they that fed them fled, and went away into the city and related everything, and what had happened as to those possessed by demons.

Matthew 8:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:31So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:31The demons begged Jesus, "If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:31And the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31So the demons besought him, saying, If thou expellest us, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31The demons begged him, saying, |If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:31and the demons were calling on him, saying, 'If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:31So the devils sought him, saying, If you cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.