“Do not offer sacred things to dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of [wild] pigs [i.e., to those who will not appreciate them], because they will probably trample on them with their feet and then turn around and attack you.
Mark 5:14 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Those who had been feeding them ran and told what all occurred in the town and around the countryside and [so] people came to find out what had happened. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The hog feeders ran away, and told [it] in the town and in the country. And [the people] came to see what it was that had taken place. American Standard Version (1901) And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass. Common English Bible Those who tended the pigs ran away and told the story in the city and in the countryside. People came to see what had happened. Catholic Public Domain Version Then those who pastured them fled, and they reported it in the city and in the countryside. And they all went out to see what was happening. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the fields. And they went out to see what was done: |
“Do not offer sacred things to dogs, and do not throw your pearls in front of [wild] pigs [i.e., to those who will not appreciate them], because they will probably trample on them with their feet and then turn around and attack you.
[Upon seeing this happen] the men who were tending the herd ran away and went into the town [i.e., of Gadara, one of ten towns making up the province of Decapolis], and told the people everything, [including] what had happened to the men dominated by evil spirits.
And He gave them permission to do it. So, the evil spirits went out of the man’s body and entered the bodies of the hogs. The herd then rushed down the cliff into the lake. There were about two thousand that drowned in the lake.
And when people came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been dominated by 5,000 to 6,000 evil spirits sitting down with his clothes on and perfectly sane, and they were afraid.
And when those who had been grazing the hogs saw what had happened, they ran and told it in the town and [around] the country.