# Matthew 8:33

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**Matthew 8:33** is the 33rd [verse](/source/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible) in [the eighth chapter](/source/Matthew_8) of the [Gospel of Matthew](/source/Gospel_of_Matthew) in the [New Testament](/source/New_Testament).

## Content

In the original Greek according to [Westcott-Hort](/source/Westcott-Hort), [Textus Receptus](/source/Textus_Receptus) and [Byzantine Majority](/source/Byzantine_text-type), this verse is:

- Οἱ δὲ βόσκοντες ἔφυγον, καὶ ἀπελθόντες εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἀπήγγειλαν πάντα, καὶ τὰ τῶν δαιμονιζομένων.

In the [King James Version](/source/King_James_Version) of the [Bible](/source/Bible) the text reads:

- And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

The [New International Version](/source/New_International_Version) translates the passage as:

- Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

For a collection of other versions see [BibleHub Matthew 8:33](http://biblehub.com/matthew/8-33.htm).

## Analysis

This verse is a part of the narrative to show Jesus' authority and his relationship to the Gentiles (cf. [Matthew 8:5](/source/Matthew_8:5)–[13](/source/Matthew_8:13)). The location in the Decapolis and the fact that swine are being raised nearby indicate a non-Jewish area, along the east coast of the [Sea of Galilee](/source/Sea_of_Galilee), where the population was mixed.[1] The parallel verses ([Mark 5](/source/Mark_5) and [Luke 8](/source/Luke_8)) mention that the news was also spread outside the city in the countryside.[2] The swine herds ran to report what had happened to their masters and to everybody they met along the way.[3]

## References

1. Allison 2007, p. 857.

1. [Poole, Matthew](/source/Matthew_Poole), *A Commentary on the Holy Bible*. ["Matthew 8"](http://biblehub.com/commentaries/poole/matthew/8.htm). Accessed on 22 August 2019.

1. Nicoll, W. R., [Expositor's Greek Testament. Matthew 8](http://biblehub.com/commentaries/egt/matthew/8.htm). Accessed 24 April 2019.

## Sources

- Allison, Dale C. Jr. (2007). ["57. Matthew"](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJdVkgEACAAJ). *The Oxford Bible Commentary*. first (paperback) ed. Barton, John & Muddiman, John (eds.). Oxford University Press. pp. 844–886. ISBN 978-0-19-927718-6. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
- Coogan, Michael David (2007). [*The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version, Issue 48*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HmpMPgAACAAJ). Augmented 3rd ed. Coogan, Michael David; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Newsom, Carol Ann; Perkins, Pheme (eds.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-528881-0.

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