Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
Christ ordered His disciples to sea that He might display His glory upon the water and work kindness for a possessed man on the far shore. They that have Christ accompanying them may safely venture anywhere; but even at His word, in a calm, they must prepare for storm and utmost peril. The devil, prince of the power of the air, perhaps suspected Christ's purpose to cast out that legion and poured tempest upon the ship to prevent it.
AI summary
Commenting on Luke 8:22-39
When they that fed them saw what was done,.... That the devils went out of the man possessed by them, and entered into the herd of swine, which becoming mad therewith, ran furiously down the precipice into the sea, and were drowned: they fled; as persons affrighted, at these uncommon and surprising events, and as afraid to see their owners: and went and told it...
Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine - Some critics and commentators would have us to understand all this of the man himself, who, they say, was a most outrageous maniac; and that, being permitted by our Lord, he ran after the swine, and drove them all down a precipice into the sea!