Matthew 8:31 - Tree of Life Version

³¹ The demons kept begging Him, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ And the demons begged Him, If You drive us out, send us into the drove of hogs.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, send us away into the herd of swine.

Common English Bible

³¹ The demons pleaded with him, “If you throw us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Then the demons petitioned him, saying: "If you cast us from here, send us into the herd of swine."

Matthew 8:31 Cross References

Matthew 4:24

News about Him spread throughout all Syria. And they brought to Him all the sick—those tormented by various diseases and afflictions, those plagued by demons, the epileptics, the paralyzed—and He healed them.

Matthew 7:6

“Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet, then turn and rip you to shreds.

Matthew 8:30

Now a large herd of pigs was feeding some distance away from them.

Matthew 8:32

And He told them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the cliff into the sea and drowned.

Mark 5:12

The unclean spirits urged Him, saying, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”

Mark 5:7

Crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What’s between You and me, Yeshua, Ben El Elyon? I’m warning you, in the name of God, do not torment me!”

Revelation 12:12

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you with great rage, knowing that his time is short.