Luke 8:36
What does Luke 8:36 mean?
A plain-English look at Luke 8:36 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Luke 8:36 means
Luke 8:36 records that witnesses recounted how the possessed man had been made whole. Their testimony confirms the miracle and offers evidence for Jesus’ authority. Public reporting of the healing serves as a form of evangelistic witness: it spreads knowledge of Jesus’ power and benevolence. The verse also sets up the social consequences: piecing together the story, people must confront their beliefs and livelihoods. Testimony underscores the reality of transformation and provides moral pressure for the community’s next decision.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they that saw it told them how he that was possessed with demons was made whole.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they that saw it told them how he that was possessed with demons was made whole.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And those who had seen it gave them an account of how the man who had the evil spirits was made well.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and those also having seen <FI>it<Fi> , told them how the demoniac was saved.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they also that had seen told them how he had been healed from the legion.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they also who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been healed.
Context
Following the discovery of the healed man, testimony circulates among the people, reinforcing the event’s reality. The chapter uses these reports to portray how miracles unsettle communities: truth about Jesus conflicts with social and economic concerns, leading to an awkward resolution in the following verse.
v.35And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the demons were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and they were afraid.
v.36This passage
v.37And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes round about asked him to depart from them; for they were holden with great fear: and he entered into a boat, and returned.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 4:24
And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them.
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