Luke 8 · Verse 33

Luke 8:33

Then 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.
Luke 8:33, King James Version

Luke 8:33 in other translations

BSBThen the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
WEBThe demons came out of the man and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
ASVAnd the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.
YLTand the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked.
DARBYAnd the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.
BBEAnd the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.
WebsterThen the demons went out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

What does Luke 8:33 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine - Some critics and commentators would have us to understand all this of the man himself, who, they say, was a most outrageous maniac; and that, being permitted by our Lord, he ran after the swine, and drove them all down a precipice into the sea! This is solemn trifling indeed; or, at least, trifling with solemn things. It is impossible to read over the account, as given here by Luke, and admit this mode of explanation. The devils went out of the man, and entered into the swine; i.e. the madman ran after the swine! On this plan of interpretation there is nothing certain in the word of God; and every man may give it what meaning he pleases. Such comments are intolerable.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 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…

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Luke 8:33 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἐξελθόνταexelthontaHaving gone outG1831
δὲdethenG1161
τὰtatheG3588
δαιμόνιαdaimoniademonsG1140
ἀπὸapofromG575
τοῦtoutheG3588
ἀνθρώπουanthrōpoumanG444
εἰσῆλθονeisēlthonthey enteredG1525
εἰςeisintoG1519
τοὺςtoustheG3588
χοίρους,choirouspigs,G5519
καὶkaiandG2532
ὥρμησενhōrmēsenrushedG3729
ἡhētheG3588
ἀγέληagelēherdG34
κατὰkatadownG2596
τοῦtoutheG3588
κρημνοῦkrēmnousteep bankG2911
εἰςeisintoG1519
τὴνtēntheG3588
λίμνηνlimnēnlakeG3041
καὶkaiandG2532
ἀπεπνίγη.¶apepnigēwas drowned.G638

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 8:33

  • Luke 8:22-23

    Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

  • Revelation 9:11

    And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

  • 1 Peter 5:8

    Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

  • John 8:44

    Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then.By this was fully evinced the sovereign power of our Lord, and the reality of diabolical agency; "for," says Dr. Doddridge, "it was self-evident that a herd of swine could not be confederates in any fraud; their death, therefore, in this instructive circumstance, was ten thousand times a greater blessing to mankind than if they had been slain for food, as was intended."
the herd.
Joh 8:44; 1Pe 5:8; Re 9:11

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Context

  • Luke 8:32

    And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

  • Luke 8:33

    Then 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.

  • Luke 8:34

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

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Luke 8:33 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y salidos los demonios del hombre, entraron en los puercos; y el hato se arrojó de un despeñadero en el lago, y ahogóse.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et les démons, sortant de l’homme, entrèrent dans les pourceaux, et le troupeau se rua du haut de la côte dans le lac, et fut étouffé.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Die Dämonen aber fuhren von dem Menschen aus und fuhren in die Schweine, und die Herde stürzte sich den Abhang hinab in den See und ertrank.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Exierunt ergo dæmonia ab homine, et intraverunt in porcos: et impetu abiit grex per præceps in stagnum, et suffocatus est.