Matthew 8:31
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
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- Revelation 20:1–2 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
- Mark 5:12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
- Luke 8:30–32 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.