Luke 8:34

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

Luke 8:34 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 8:34

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.

Luke 8:34 In-Context

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.

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

35 So the people went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man whom the demons had left, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

36 Meanwhile, those who had seen it reported how the demon-possessed man had been healed.