Luke 8:37

World English Bible (2000)

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.

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  • Acts 16:39 : 39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out, they asked them to depart from the city.
  • Luke 5:8 : 8 But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord."
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"
  • Luke 9:5 : 5 As many as don't receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."
  • Luke 9:56 : 56 For the Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." They went to another village.
  • Luke 10:10-11 : 10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into its streets and say, 11 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.'
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."
  • Deut 5:25 : 25 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
  • 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?"
  • 2 Sam 6:8-9 : 8 David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day. 9 David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?"
  • 1 Kgs 17:18 : 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Matt 8:34 : 34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
  • Mark 5:17 : 17 They began to beg him to depart from their region.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 8:28-34
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    87%

    28 When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

    29 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"

    30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.

    31 The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs."

    32 He said to them, "Go!" They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

    33 Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.

    34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

  • Luke 8:38-39
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    86%

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

    39 "Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

  • Mark 5:12-21
    10 verses
    85%

    12 All the demons begged him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them."

    13 At once Jesus gave them permission. The unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs. The herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowned in the sea.

    14 Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.

    15 They came to Jesus, and saw him who had been possessed by demons sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, even him who had the legion; and they were afraid.

    16 Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

    17 They began to beg him to depart from their region.

    18 As he was entering into the boat, he who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him.

    19 He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

    20 He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

    21 When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

  • Luke 8:26-36
    11 verses
    83%

    26 They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

    27 When Jesus stepped ashore, a certain man out of the city who had demons for a long time met him. He wore no clothes, and didn't live in a house, but in the tombs.

    28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don't torment me!"

    29 For Jesus was commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For the unclean spirit had often seized the man. He was kept under guard, and bound with chains and fetters. Breaking the bands apart, he was driven by the demon into the desert.

    30 Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.

    31 They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.

    32 Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.

    33 The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.

    34 When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

    35 People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

    36 Those who saw it told them how he who had been possessed by demons was healed.

  • Mark 5:1-2
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    81%

    1 They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

    2 When he had come out of the boat, immediately a man with an unclean spirit met him out of the tombs.

  • Matt 8:18
    80%

    18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

  • Mark 5:10
    78%

    10 He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

  • Mark 8:13
    77%

    13 He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.

  • Matt 14:34
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    34 When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret.

  • Mark 4:36
    76%

    36 Leaving the multitude, they took him with them, even as he was, in the boat. Other small boats were also with him.

  • Matt 15:39
    75%

    39 Then he sent away the multitudes, got into the boat, and came into the borders of Magdala.

  • Mark 3:7
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    7 Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

  • Matt 14:13
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    13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

  • Luke 8:22
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    22 Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.

  • Luke 4:42
    74%

    42 When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn't go away from them.

  • Matt 14:22
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    22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

  • Mark 1:34
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    34 He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. He didn't allow the demons to speak, because they knew him.

  • Mark 6:32-33
    2 verses
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    32 They went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.

    33 They saw them going, and many recognized him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to him.

  • Mark 7:31
    73%

    31 Again he departed from the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and came to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the region of Decapolis.

  • Matt 13:2
    73%

    2 Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

  • Matt 9:31
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    31 But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

  • Mark 6:46
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    46 After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.