Matthew 8: Healing and Authority over Storm and Demons

Coming down from the mountain, Jesus cleanses a leper, heals a centurion's servant, and heals Peter's mother-in-law and many others. He tells would-be followers the cost of discipleship, calms a storm, and casts demons out of two men into a herd of pigs.

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In Matthew 8:28-34, what happened when Jesus cast the demons out of the two demon-possessed men into the herd of pigs?

The pigs became calm and peaceful afterwardThe pigs were completely unaffected by the demonsThe demons instead entered the townspeopleThe whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died