When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away, and told it in the city and in the villages.

But they that fed them, seeing what had happened, fled, and told it to the city and to the country.

And those feeding them, having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told it to the city, and to the fields;

The swineherds, seeing what had happened, fled and reported it both in town and country;

And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country.

And when those who were pasturing them had seen this, they fled and reported it in the city and the villages.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around.

They fled, and went and told it - Απελθοντες, They went, is omitted by almost every MS. of repute, and by the best of the ancient versions. Griesbach leaves it out, and with propriety too, as it is not likely that so correct a writer as Luke would say, They fled, and Went and told it.

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 in the city; that is, of Gadara, or some other city near at hand; the Syriac and Ethiopic versions read, "in the cities"; in all the cities round about, in that country:
and in the country, or "fields", in the villages adjacent, and in the houses which were scattered about in the fields for conveniency, for rural business.