Matthew 8:30
Nowe there was, afarre off from them, a great heard of swine feeding.
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- Lev 11:7 : 7 And the swine, because he parteth ye hoofe and is clouen footed, but cheweth not the cud, he shalbe vncleane to you.
- Deut 14:8 : 8 Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shal not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.
- Isa 65:3-4 : 3 A people that prouoked me euer vnto my face: that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense vpon brickes. 4 Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the desarts, which eate swines flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.
- Isa 66:3 : 3 He that killeth a bullocke, is as if he slewe a man: he that sacrificeth a sheepe, as if he cut off a dogges necke: he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swines blood: he that remembreth incense, as if he blessed an idole: yea, they haue chosen their owne wayes, and their soule deliteth in their abominations.
- Mark 5:11 : 11 Now there was there in the mountaines a great heard of swine, feeding.
- Luke 8:32 : 32 And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.
- Luke 15:15-16 : 15 Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine. 16 And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.
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- Luke 8:26-3813 verses90%
26So they sailed vnto the region of the Gadarenes, which is ouer against Galile.
27And as he went out to land, there met him a certaine man out of the citie, which had deuils long time, and he ware no garment, neither abode in house, but in the graues.
28And when he sawe Iesus, he cryed out and fell downe before him, and with a loude voyce sayd, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of God the most High? I beseech thee torment me not.
29For he commanded ye foule spirit to come out of the man: (for oft times he had caught him: therefore he was bound with chaines, and kept in fetters: but he brake the bands, and was caried of the deuill into wildernesses.)
30Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.
31And they besought him, that he would not commaund them to goe out into the deepe.
32And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.
33Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.
34When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.
35Then they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afrayd.
36They also which saw it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed with the deuill, was healed.
37Then the whole multitude of the countrey about the Gadarenes, besought him that he would depart from them: for they were taken with a great feare: and he went into the ship, and returned.
38Then the man, out of whome the deuils were departed, besought him that hee might be with him: but Iesus sent him away, saying,
- Matt 8:31-344 verses89%
31And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.
32And he said vnto them, Go. So they went out and departed into the heard of swine: and beholde, the whole heard of swine ranne headlong into the sea, and died in the water.
33Then the heardmen fled: and when they were come into the citie, they tolde all things, and what was become of them that were possessed with the deuils.
34And beholde, all ye citie came out to meete Iesus: and when they sawe him, they besought him to depart out of their coastes.
- Mark 5:6-1813 verses89%
6And when he saw Iesus afarre off, he ranne, and worshipped him,
7And cryed with a loude voyce, and saide, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of the most high God? I will that thou sweare to me by God, that thou torment me not.
8(For hee saide vnto him, Come out of the man, thou vncleane spirit.)
9And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10And hee prayed him instantly, that hee would not send them away out of the countrey.
11Now there was there in the mountaines a great heard of swine, feeding.
12And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.
14And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.
15And they came to Iesus, and sawe him that had bene possessed with the deuil, and had the legion, sit both clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraide.
16And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.
17Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.
18And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.
- Matt 8:28-292 verses82%
28And when he was come to the other side into ye countrey of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with deuils, which came out of the graues very fierce, so that no man might goe by that way.
29And beholde, they cryed out, saying, Iesus the sonne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to tormet vs before ye time?
- Luke 15:15-162 verses74%
15Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.
16And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.
- Mark 1:23-264 verses74%
23And there was in their Synagogue a man in whome was an vncleane spirite, and hee cried out,
24Saying, Ah, what haue we to do with thee, O Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I knowe thee what thou art, euen that holy one of God.
25And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him.
26And the vncleane spirit tare him, & cried with a loude voyce, and came out of him.
- Mark 5:1-44 verses73%
1And they came ouer to the other side of the sea into the countrey of the Gadarens.
2And when he was come out of the shippe, there met him incontinently out of the graues, a man which had an vncleane spirit:
3Who had his abiding among the graues, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:
4Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.
- Luke 4:33-342 verses72%
33And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,
34Saying, Oh, what haue we to doe with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I know who thou art, euen the holy one of God.
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11And when the vncleane spirits sawe him, they fel downe before him, & cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.
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8Also the swine, because he deuideth the hoofe, and cheweth not the cud, shalbe vncleane vnto you: ye shal not eate of their flesh, nor touch their dead carkeises.
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20So they brought him vnto him: & assoone as the spirit sawe him, hee tare him, and hee fell downe on the ground walowing and foming.
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18And when Iesus sawe great multitudes of people about him, he commanded them to goe ouer the water.
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30Because they saide, Hee had an vncleane spirit.
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41And deuils also came out of many, crying, and saying, Thou art that Christ that Sonne of God: but he rebuked them, and suffered them not to say that they knewe him to be that Christ.