Luke 8:29
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
KJV
παρήγγελλεν γὰρ τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἀκαθάρτῳ ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· πολλοῖς γὰρ χρόνοις συνηρπάκει αὐτόν, καὶ ἐδεσμεύετο ἁλύσεσιν καὶ πέδαις φυλασσόμενος, καὶ διαρρήσσων τὰ δεσμὰ ἠλαύνετο ὑπὸ τοῦ δαιμονίου εἰς τὰς ἐρήμους.
Greek NT
Præcipiebat enim spiritui immundo ut exiret ab homine. Multis enim temporibus arripiebat illum, et vinciebatur catenis, et compedibus custoditus. Et ruptis vinculis agebatur a dæmonio in deserta.
Vulgate
For he was commanding the unclean spirit to come out from the man. For oftentimes it had seized him: and he was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters; and breaking the bands asunder, he was driven of the demon into the deserts.
ASV
For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
24 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
4 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- παρήγγελλεν — SBLGNT
- παρήγγελλεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- παρήγγειλεν — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἐδεσμεύετο — SBLGNT
- ἐδεσμεύετο — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐδεσμεῖτο — Robinson-Pierpont
- ὑπὸ — SBLGNT
- ὑπὸ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἀπὸ — Westcott-Hort
- δαιμονίου — SBLGNT
- δαιμονίου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- δαίμονος — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§550The coming of God's kingdom means the defeat of Satan's: "If it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you."277 Jesus' exorcisms free some individuals from the domination of demons. They anticipate Jesus' great victory over "the ruler of this world".278 The kingdom of God will be definitively established through Christ's cross: "Go…
Cross-references
- Acts 19:16 — And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
- Mark 5:3 — Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
- Mark 9:20 — And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.