Luke 8:30
Good News Translation
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is 'Mob,'" he answered--because many demons had gone into him.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion”; for many demons had entered him.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked the man, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Lots." He said this because there were "lots" of demons in him.

New American Bible
Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion,” because many demons had entered him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

Legion.

Matthew 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

Mark 5:9 And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

many.

Luke 8:2 And certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who is called Magdalen, out of whom seven devils were gone forth,

Matthew 8:29 And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

Mark 16:9 But he rising early the first day of the week, appeared first to Mary Magdalen; out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
29For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts. 30And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him. 31And they besought him that he would not command them to go into the abyss.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

Matthew 26:53
Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

Mark 5:9
And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

Luke 8:29
For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts.

Luke 8:29
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