Luke 8:31
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
KJV
καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἵνα μὴ ἐπιτάξῃ αὐτοῖς εἰς τὴν ἄβυσσον ἀπελθεῖν.
Greek NT
Et rogabant illum ne imperaret illis ut in abyssum irent.
Vulgate
And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
ASV
And they besought him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
παρακαλέω
parakaleo
verb · 108×
ἀπέρχομαι
aperchomai
verb · 117×
ἄβυσσος
abussos
noun · 9×
ἐπιτάσσω
epitasso
verb · 10×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: παρεκάλουν | WH/Treg/NIV: παρεκάλουν | RP: παρεκάλει
- παρεκάλουν — SBLGNT
- παρεκάλουν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- παρεκάλει — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 2Pet 2:4 — For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
- Matt 25:41 — Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
- Rev 9:1 — And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.