Luke 8:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 8:30 Cross References

Matthew 26:53

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 4:24

So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought to him all the sick, those who were afflicted with various diseases and pains, people possessed by demons or having epilepsy or afflicted with paralysis, and he cured them.

Matthew 8:29

Suddenly they shouted, “What have you to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Mark 16:9

Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Mark 5:9

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

Luke 8:2

as well as some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

Luke 8:29

for Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many times it had seized him; he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the wilds.)