Matthew 8:29 (YLT)

Passage

and lo, they cried out, saying, `What--to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

Nearby Context

Matthew 8:27 and the men wondered, saying, `What kind--is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

Matthew 8:28 And he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way,

Matthew 8:29 and lo, they cried out, saying, `What--to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

Matthew 8:30 And there was far off from them a herd of many swine feeding,

Matthew 8:31 and the demons were calling on him, saying, `If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "cried", "saying", "what--to", "thee", "jesus", "didst", "thou", and "come". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "cried" and "saying", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 28's "And he having come to the other..." into verse 30's "And there was far off from them...", so "cried" and "saying" belong inside that flow. In Matthew context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "cried" and "saying" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.