Mark 5:11
There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
BSB
ASV
Now there was there on the mountain side a great herd of swine feeding.
KJV
Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Now there was there, nigh unto the mountains,.... Where this man often was, Mar 5:5 according to Beza, the mountains of Galaad, which ran through that country, or the mountains that surrounded Tiberias. Some copies, as the Alexandrian copy and others, read "at", or "about the mountain", in the singular number. The Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions read, "about the mountain".
In Mt 8:30, they are said to have been "a good way off." But these expressions, far from being inconsistent, only confirm, by their precision, the minute accuracy of the narrative. a great herd of swine feeding--There can hardly be any doubt that the owners of these were Jews, since to them our Lord had now come to proffer His services.
The walk8
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Isaiah 65:4sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
leads to
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s…
Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Matthew 8:30In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
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Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you, as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud.…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
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Deuteronomy 14:8Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you, as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud.…
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sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Every animal with hooves not completely divided or that does not chew the cud is unclean for you. Whoever touches any of them will be unclean.
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
