Matthew 8:34

World English Bible (2000)

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

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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."
  • 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!"
  • 1 Kgs 18:17 : 17 It happened, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, "Is that you, you troubler of Israel?"
  • Job 21:14 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
  • Job 22:17 : 17 who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
  • Matt 8:29 : 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?"
  • Mark 5:17-18 : 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.
  • 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 8:37-39 : 37 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. 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.
  • 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 16:4 : 4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, "Do you come peaceably?"

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  • Luke 8:30-40
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    87%

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

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

    32Now 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.

    33The 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.

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

    35People 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.

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

    37All 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.

    38But 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.

    40It happened, when Jesus returned, that the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

  • Mark 5:14-18
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    14Those 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.

    15They 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.

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

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

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

  • Matt 8:28-33
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    28When 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.

    29Behold, 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?"

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

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

    32He 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.

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

  • Mark 1:32-34
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    32At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to him all who were sick, and those who were possessed by demons.

    33All the city was gathered together at the door.

    34He 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.

  • Luke 8:26-28
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    26They arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.

    27When 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.

    28When 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!"

  • Mark 6:33
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    33They 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.

  • Matt 8:18
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    18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

  • Mark 5:10
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    10He begged him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

  • Mark 5:1-2
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    1They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.

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

  • Luke 4:42
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    42When 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.

  • John 4:30
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    30They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

  • Mark 5:20
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    20He went his way, and began to proclaim in Decapolis how Jesus had done great things for him, and everyone marveled.

  • Matt 14:34-35
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    34When they had crossed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret.

    35When the people of that place recognized him, they sent into all that surrounding region, and brought to him all who were sick,

  • Matt 14:13
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    13Now 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.

  • Matt 8:1
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    1When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

  • Luke 9:37
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    37It happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met him.

  • Matt 9:1
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    1He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

  • Mark 1:38
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    38He said to them, "Let's go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also, because I came out for this reason."

  • Luke 4:30
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    30But he, passing through the midst of them, went his way.

  • Luke 18:37
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    37They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.

  • Mark 9:15
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    15Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.

  • Mark 3:7-8
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    7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

    8from Jerusalem, from Idumaea, beyond the Jordan, and those from around Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came to him.

  • Mark 1:45
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    45But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere.

  • Matt 4:25
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    25Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.