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Luke 8:34

When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

KJV

ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ βόσκοντες τὸ γεγονὸς ἔφυγον καὶ ἀπήγγειλαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀγρούς.

Greek NT

Quod ut viderunt factum qui pascebant, fugerunt, et nuntiaverunt in civitatem et in villas.

Vulgate

And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

ASV

Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away and told it in the city and in the villages.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βόσκω
bosko
verb · 9×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πόλις
polis
noun · 164×
φεύγω
pheugo
verb · 30×
ἀγρός
agros
noun · 36×
ἀπαγγέλλω
apaggello
verb · 47×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: γεγονὸς | WH/Treg/NIV: γεγονὸς | RP: γεγενημένον
  • γεγονὸςSBLGNT
  • γεγονὸςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • γεγενημένονRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 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 5:14 — And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
  • Mark 5:14 — And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
  • Matt 8:33 — And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
  • Matt 8:33 — And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
  • Matt 28:11 — Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.