'Pigs' in the Bible

"Never give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs. Otherwise, they will trample them with their feet and then turn around and attack you."

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing some distance away from them.

So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, "If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

He told them, "Go," and they came out and went into the pigs. Suddenly, the whole herd rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned in the water.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they came into the city and reported everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing on a hillside nearby.

So the demons begged him, "Send us among the pigs, so that we can go into them!"

So he let them do this. The unclean spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd of about 2,000 rushed down a steep slope into the sea and drowned there.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs ran away, they reported what had happened in the city and countryside. So the people went to see what had happened.

The people who had seen it told them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and the pigs.

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into those pigs, and he consented to that.

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down a steep slope into the lake and drowned.

Now when those who had been taking care of the pigs saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside.

So he went out to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

No one would give him anything, even though he would gladly have filled himself with the husks the pigs were eating.