Luke 8:39
Good News Translation
"Go back home and tell what God has done for you." The man went through the town, telling what Jesus had done for him.

New Revised Standard Version
“Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the city how much Jesus had done for him.

Contemporary English Version
"Go back home and tell everyone how much God has done for you." The man then went all over town, telling everything that Jesus had done for him.

New American Bible
“Return home and recount what God has done for you.” The man went off and proclaimed throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Return to thy house and tell how great things God hath done to thee. And he went through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done to him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Return to thy house and tell how great things God hath done to thee. And he went through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done to him.

Return.

1 Timothy 5:8 But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

and published.

Luke 17:15-18 And one of them, when he saw that he was made clean, went back, with a loud voice glorifying God. . . .

Deuteronomy 10:21 He is thy praise, and thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thy eyes have seen.

Psalm 66:16 Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what great things he hath done for my soul.

Psalm 126:2,3 Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy. Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them. . . .

Daniel 4:1-3,34-37 I, Nabuchodonosor, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace: . . .

Mark 1:45 But he being gone out, began to publish and to blaze abroad the word: so that he could not openly go into the city. but was without in desert places. And they flocked to him from all sides.

John 4:29 Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
38Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying: 39Return to thy house and tell how great things God hath done to thee. And he went through the whole city, publishing how great things Jesus had done to him. 40And it came to pass that when Jesus was returned, the multitude received him: for they were all waiting for him.…
Cross References
Mark 5:18
And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him.

Mark 5:19
And he admitted him not, but saith him: Go into thy house to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had mercy thee.

Luke 8:38
Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying:

Luke 8:40
And it came to pass that when Jesus was returned, the multitude received him: for they were all waiting for him.

Luke 8:38
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