Luke 8:31
29 For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.
30 “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
32 There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
33 Then 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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
- KJV
- And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
- WEB
- They begged him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.
- ASV
- And they entreated him that he would not command them to depart into the abyss.
- DARBY
- And they besought him that he would not command them to go away into the bottomless pit.
- BLB
- And they were imploring Him that He would not command them to go away into the Abyss.
- ÅB
- Og de ba ham at han ikke ville befale dem fare ned i avgrunnen.
- OTB
- Og de ba Jesus gjentatte ganger om ikke å sende dem ned i avgrunnen.
- B1930
- Og de bad ham at han ikke vilde byde dem fare ned i avgrunnen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 25:41
Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Read in contextRevelation 9:11
They were ruled by a king, the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek it is Apollyon.
Read in contextJob 2:5
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Read in contextRevelation 17:8
The beast that you saw—it was, and now is no more, but is about to come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. And those who dwell on the earth whose names were not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet will be.
Read in contextRevelation 20:14–15
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
Read in contextRevelation 19:20
But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:10–11
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
Read in contextJob 1:11
But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
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