Quotes about Pigs

Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish flavor. They describe how a group of Israelites were transformed into rats, how unbelievers are turned into monkeys and pigs, and how Abraham's father was transformed into an animal and hurled into the raging fires of hell.

There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.

There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.

So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.

Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.

Those tending the pigs ran off into the town and reported all this, including the account of the demon-possessed men.

When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported this in the town and countryside.

Even saints do not smile sweetly when God throws them into mud puddles. Only pigs do that.