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Luke 8:30
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many demons had entered into him.
Luke 8:30 · Webster Bible
Luke 8:30 in other translations
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.
Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.
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In context
27 And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, who had demons a long time, and wore no clothes, neither abode in [any] house, but in the tombs.
28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of God most high? I beseech thee torment me not.
29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For often it had caught him, and he was kept bound with chains, and in fetters: and he broke the bands, and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.)
30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many demons had entered into him.
31 And they besought him, that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
32 And there was there a 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.
33 Then the demons went out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
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