Matthew 8:31
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
KJV
οἱ δὲ δαίμονες παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν λέγοντες, εἰ ἐκβάλλεις ἡμᾶς, ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίρων.
Greek NT
Dæmones autem rogabant eum, dicentes : Si ejicis nos hinc, mitte nos in gregem porcorum.
Vulgate
And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.
ASV
And the devils besought him, saying: If thou cast us out hence, send us into the herd of swine.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δαίμων
daimon
noun · 1×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
παρακαλέω
parakaleo
verb · 108×
χοῖρος
choiros
noun · 12×
ἀγέλη
agele
noun · 7×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἐκβάλλω
ekballo
verb · 80×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς | RP: ἐπίτρεψον ἡμῖν ἀπελθεῖν
- ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς — SBLGNT
- ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπίτρεψον ἡμῖν ἀπελθεῖν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
29. 'But if any one having in mind the history of Job should say, Why then has the devil gone forth and accomplished all things against him; and stripped him of all his possessions, and slew his children, and smote him with evil ulcers? Let such a one, on the other hand, recognise that the devil was not the strong man, but God who delivered Job to him to be tried. Certainly he …
Were we freed from sin by Christ's Passion? Were we thereby delivered from the power of the devil? Were we freed thereby from our debt of punishment? Were we thereby reconciled with God? Was heaven's gate opened to us thereby? Did Christ derive exaltation from it? Article 1. Whether we were delivered from sin through Christ's Passion? Objection 1. It would seem that we were not…
Cross-references
- Luke 8:30 — And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
- Mark 3:11 — And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
- Mark 5:12 — And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
- Rev 20:1 — And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.