When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.
Parallel translations
- KJV When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.
- BSB When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside.
- ESV When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.
- NKJV When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.
- NASB Now when the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and reported everything in the city, and in the country.
- NLT When the herdsmen saw it, they fled to the nearby town and the surrounding countryside, spreading the news as they ran.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Mark 5:14Those who fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the country. The people came to see what it was that had happened.
- Acts 19:16–17The man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
- Matt 8:33Those who fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, including what happened to those who were possessed with demons.
- Matt 28:11Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened.
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