Matthew 8:32

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Jesus replied to them, “Go [ahead].” And they came out [of the man] and entered the hogs, and suddenly the entire herd rushed down the cliff into the lake and drowned in the water [below].

Cross References

Matthew 8:31

So, the evil spirits [in one of the men. See Mark 5:1ff] begged Jesus, saying, “If you are going to drive us out [of this man], send us away into that herd of [wild (?)] hogs.”

Matthew 8:33

[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.

Mark 5:13

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.

Luke 8:33

Then the evil spirits went out of the man and entered the hogs. The herd [immediately] rushed down the cliff into the lake and was drowned.

Acts 2:23

Yet, He was handed over to you so that, by lawless men [i.e., the Romans], He was put to death by crucifixion. Now this was all done in harmony with God's full pre-knowledge and [divine] purpose.

Acts 4:28

to do what your plan and wisdom predetermined should happen.

Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,