Luke 8:34

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside.

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country.

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Ἰδόντες Idontes Having seen G1492 δὲ de then G1161 οἱ hoi those G3588 βόσκοντες boskontes feeding [them] G1006 τὸ to what G3588 γεγονὸς gegonos already happening G1096 ἔφυγον ephugon they fled G5343 καὶ kai and G2532 ἀπελθόντες apelthontes having gone G565 ἀπήγγειλαν apēngeilan they reported [it] G518 εἰς eis to G1519 τὴν tēn the G3588 πόλιν polin city G4172 καὶ kai and G2532 εἰς eis to G1519 τοὺς tous the G3588 ἀγρούς agrous country G68

The early church

(Vide Victor. Ant. in Mark 5.) But the shepherds take flight, lest they should perish with the swine. Hence it follows, When they that fed them saw what was done they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country, and excited the like alarm among the citizens.
Titus of Bostra · d. 378Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
When those who kept the herd saw this they fled. For neither the teachers of philosophy nor the chief of the synagogue can bring a cure to perishing mankind. It is Christ alone who takes away the sins of the people.
Ambrose of Milan · d. 397Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
(de Qu. Evan. l. ii. q. 13.) Or, by the herdsmen of the swine flying and telling these things, He represents certain rulers of the wicked, who though they evade the law of Christianity, yet proclaim it among the nations by their astonishment and wonder.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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