The Meaning of Matthew 8:33 Explained

Matthew 8:33

KJV: 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.

YLT: and those feeding did flee, and, having gone to the city, they declared all, and the matter of the demoniacs.

Darby: But they that fed them fled, and went away into the city and related everything, and what had happened as to those possessed by demons.

ASV: And they that fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to them that were possessed with demons.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Matthew 8:33?

MEANING: What does Matthew 8:33 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Matthew 8:33 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Matthew 8:33?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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. 

What does Matthew 8:33 Mean?

Context Summary

Matthew 8:28-34 - An Unwelcome Visitor
The demon spirit seems still to tenant the lives of human beings. To what else can we attribute the paroxysms of passion, the awful cruelties and inhumanities of men? There is only one devil, but many demons; only one prince of the power of darkness, but many emissaries. Take heed, lest you open the door of your nature to the spirit of evil and he possess you. Watch and pray, and trust the keeping of your soul to the hands of Christ. He is stronger than the strong man.
Notice that the demon is set upon destruction. If he may not destroy the souls of men, he will destroy swine. This is the mark of evil. It is always destructive; whereas the Spirit of God is constructive and builds up from the ruins of Satan's work a new heaven and a new earth, both in the soul and in the universe.
All the city besought Jesus to depart, because men count their gains more valuable than His presence. The same spirit rules in the commercial world of today. Let us beware. What shall it profit to gain the world, if we lose our souls? [source]

Chapter Summary: Matthew 8

1  Jesus cleanses the leper;
5  heals the centurion's servant,
14  Peter's mother in law,
16  and many others;
18  shows the cost of following him;
23  stills the storm on the sea;
28  drives the demons out of two men possessed;
31  and tells them to go into the pigs

What do the individual words in Matthew 8:33 mean?

Those now feeding [them] fled and having gone away into the city they related everything including the [matter] of those being possessed by demons
Οἱ δὲ βόσκοντες ἔφυγον καὶ ἀπελθόντες εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἀπήγγειλαν πάντα καὶ τὰ τῶν δαιμονιζομένων

Οἱ  Those 
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ὁ  
Sense: this, that, these, etc.
δὲ  now 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: δέ  
Sense: but, moreover, and, etc.
βόσκοντες  feeding  [them] 
Parse: Verb, Present Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: βόσκω  
Sense: to feed.
ἔφυγον  fled 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: φεύγω  
Sense: to flee away, seek safety by flight.
ἀπελθόντες  having  gone  away 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ἀπέρχομαι  
Sense: to go away, depart.
εἰς  into 
Parse: Preposition
Root: εἰς  
Sense: into, unto, to, towards, for, among.
πόλιν  city 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular
Root: πόλις  
Sense: a city.
ἀπήγγειλαν  they  related 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: ἀγγέλλω 
Sense: to bring tidings (from a person or a thing), bring word, report.
πάντα  everything 
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Neuter Plural
Root: πᾶς  
Sense: individually.
καὶ  including 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: καί  
Sense: and, also, even, indeed, but.
τὰ  the  [matter] 
Parse: Article, Accusative Neuter Plural
Root: ὁ  
Sense: this, that, these, etc.
τῶν  of  those 
Parse: Article, Genitive Masculine Plural
Root: ὁ  
Sense: this, that, these, etc.
δαιμονιζομένων  being  possessed  by  demons 
Parse: Verb, Present Participle Middle or Passive, Genitive Masculine Plural
Root: δαιμονίζομαι  
Sense: to be under the power of a demon.

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