31 And they began imploring[a] him that he would not order them to depart into the abyss. 32 Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding there on the hill, and they implored him that he would permit them to enter into those pigs. And he permitted them. 33 So the demons came out of the man and[b] entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 8:31 The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began imploring”)
  2. Luke 8:33 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came out”) has been translated as a finite verb