Luke 8:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁰ Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, “[My name is] ‘Legion’” [Note: This word means a number consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000], for many evil spirits had entered the man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ Jesus then asked him, What is your name? And he answered, Legion; for many demons had entered him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ And Jesus asked him, What is thy name? And he said, Legion; for many demons were entered into him.

Common English Bible

³⁰ Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had entered him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ Then Jesus questioned him, saying, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered into him.

Luke 8:30 Cross References

Matthew 26:53

Or, do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father and He will immediately send me more than twelve legions of angels [i.e., Jesus could have called about 72,000 angels to minister to Him. See Matt. 4:11]?

Luke 8:2

and certain women who had been healed from [domination by] evil spirits and diseases. [These women were] Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had been driven out,

Mark 16:9

Now when Jesus arose from the dead early on the first day of the week [i.e., Sunday morning], He appeared first to Mary from Magdala, from whom He had driven out seven evil spirits.

Matthew 8:29

Suddenly they shouted out, “What do you want with us, you Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before it is time to?” [i.e., before our punishment is due. See II Pet. 2:4; Jude 6].

Mark 5:9

Then He asked [the evil spirit], “What is your name?” And he answered Him, “My name is ‘Legion,’ [Note: This word means a number consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000], for there are many of us [i.e., evil spirits].”

Matthew 4:24

The news [of what Jesus was doing] spread all over [the country of] Syria and they brought to Him all those who were sick, stricken with various diseases and pains, dominated by evil spirits, and afflicted with seizures and paralysis, and He healed them [all].

Luke 8:29

For Jesus was commanding the evil spirits to be driven out of the man, because they had been controlling him for a long time. The man was continually being guarded and his hands and feet were bound with chains. [Sometimes] he broke loose from the chains and was driven into the desert by the evil spirits.