Luke 8:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ Then the whole throng of people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear; and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ Then all the people of the country surrounding the Gerasenes' district asked [Jesus] to depart from them, for they were possessed and suffering with dread and terror; so He entered a boat and returned [to the west side of the Sea of Galilee].

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes round about asked him to depart from them; for they were holden with great fear: and he entered into a boat, and returned.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Then everyone gathered from the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave their area because they were overcome with fear. So he got into the boat and returned across the lake.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And the entire multitude from the region of the Gerasenes pleaded with him to depart from them. For they were seized by a great fear. Then, climbing into the boat, he went back again.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And all the multitude of the country of the Gerasens besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear. And he, going up into the ship, returned back again.

Luke 8:37 Cross References

1 Kings 17:18

She then said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!”

Matthew 8:34

Then the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him they begged him to leave their region.

Mark 5:17

Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.

Luke 10:16

“Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

Luke 5:8

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

Luke 8:28

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, shouting, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me,”

Luke 8:36

Those who had seen it told them how the one who had been possessed by demons had been healed.

Luke 8:38

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Luke 9:5

Wherever they do not welcome you, as you are leaving that town shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

Luke 9:56

Then they went on to another village.

Acts 16:39

so they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.

Deuteronomy 5:25

But now why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, we shall die.

1 Samuel 6:20

Then the people of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go so that we may be rid of him?”