Luke 8:27

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

As Jesus was getting out of the boat, he was met by a man from this town. The man had demons in him. He had gone naked for a long time and no longer lived in a house, but in the graveyard.

Cross References

1 Samuel 19:24

he stripped off his clothes and prophesied in front of Samuel. He dropped to the ground and lay there naked all that day and night. That's how the saying started, “Is Saul now a prophet?”

Numbers 19:16

If you touch the body of someone who died or was killed, or if you touch a human bone or a grave, you will be unclean for seven days.

Isaiah 65:4

They spend their nights hiding in burial caves; they eat the meat of pigs, cooked in sauces made of stuff unfit to eat.

Matthew 4:24

News about him spread all over Syria, and people with every kind of sickness or disease were brought to him. Some of them had a lot of demons in them, others were thought to be crazy, and still others could not walk. But Jesus healed them all.

Mark 5:15

When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had once been full of demons. He was sitting there with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were terrified.

Luke 8:26

Jesus and his disciples sailed across Lake Galilee and came to shore near the town of Gerasa.

Luke 8:28

The man saw Jesus and screamed. He knelt down in front of him and shouted, “Jesus, Son of God Most High, what do you want with me? I beg you not to torture me!”