“And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.”
A large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. The demons begged Jesus to let them go into the pigs, and he gave them permission — the pigs on the hillside in Gentile territory are the preferred alternative to the abyss. The demons' begging for permission and Jesus' granting of it communicates Jesus' complete control of the encounter — the demons are reduced to supplicants.
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