Luke 8:34
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New International Version (©2011)
When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside,

New Living Translation (©2007)
When the herdsmen saw it, they fled to the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they ran.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and out in the country.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside.

NET Bible (©2006)
When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But when the herdsmen saw what happened, they fled, and they related it in the city and in the villages.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When those who had taken care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away. They reported everything in the city and countryside.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

American King James Version
When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

American Standard Version
And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away, and told it in the city and in the villages.

Darby Bible Translation
But they that fed them, seeing what had happened, fled, and told it to the city and to the country.

English Revised Version
And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

Webster's Bible Translation
When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

Weymouth New Testament
The swineherds, seeing what had happened, fled and reported it both in town and country;

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

Young's Literal Translation
And those feeding them, having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told it to the city, and to the fields;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:22-40 Those that put to sea in a calm, even at Christ's word, must yet prepare for a storm, and for great peril in that storm. There is no relief for souls under a sense of guilt, and fear of wrath, but to go to Christ, and call him Master, and say, I am undone, if thou dost not help me. When our dangers are over, it becomes us to take to ourselves the shame of our own fears, and to give Christ the glory of our deliverance. We may learn much out of this history concerning the world of infernal, malignant spirits, which though not working now exactly in the same way as then, yet all must at all times carefully guard against. And these malignant spirits are very numerous. They have enmity to man and all his comforts. Those under Christ's government are sweetly led with the bands of love; those under the devil's government are furiously driven. Oh what a comfort it is to the believer, that all the powers of darkness are under the control of the Lord Jesus! It is a miracle of mercy, if those whom Satan possesses, are not brought to destruction and eternal ruin. Christ will not stay with those who slight him; perhaps he may no more return to them, while others are waiting for him, and glad to receive him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 34. - When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country. The men who kept the swine had witnessed the whole transaction; and as the Master uttered the word "Go," they saw a change in a moment pass through the vast herd. A wild panic seemed to seize the creatures, something: had filled them with a great fear, - they would hurry from the unseen but felt presence; the cool blue waters of the lake, clearly seen from the upland down where they were feeding, seemed to premise the best refuge; they rushed from the plateau down a steep incline, which travellers since think they have identified, and the deep waters or' (Gennesaret put a quick end to the creatures' torments.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When they that fed them saw what was done,.... That the devils went out of the man possessed by them, and entered into the herd of swine, which becoming mad therewith, ran furiously down the precipice into the sea, and were drowned:

they fled; as persons affrighted, at these uncommon and surprising events, and as afraid to see their owners:

and went and told it in the city; that is, of Gadara, or some other city near at hand; the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read, "in the cities"; in all the cities round about, in that country:

and in the country, or "fields", in the villages adjacent, and in the houses which were scattered about in the fields for conveniency, for rural business.

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Demons Cast into Pigs
…33Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. 34When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country. 35Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. …

Matthew 8:33 Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
Luke 8:33 When the demons came out of the man, they went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
Luke 8:35 and the people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.