Matthew 8:31

A Conservative Version

And the demons besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, allow us to go away into the herd of swine.

Cross References

Mark 5:12

And all the demons besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, so that we may enter into them.

Revelation 12:12

Rejoice because of this, O heavens, and ye who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time.

Mark 5:7

And having cried out in a great voice, he said, What is with me and with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, do not torment me.

Matthew 4:24

And his fame went forth into all Syria. And they brought to him all those faring badly with various diseases, and gripped with pain, and being demon-possessed, and being lunatic, and paralyzed. And he healed them.

Matthew 7:6

Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, lest they trample them by their feet, and having turn back may lacerate you.

Matthew 8:30

Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding.

Matthew 8:32

And he said to them, Go. And having come out, they went into the herd of swine. And behold, the whole herd of the swine stampeded down the slope into the sea, and perished in the waters.