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30 Jesus asked the man, ‘What is your name?’ The man replied, ‘My name is Army.’ He said this because very many bad spirits had gone into him.[a] 31 These bad spirits asked Jesus not to send them away to the world below.[b]

32 There was a large group of pigs there and they were eating on the hill. The bad spirits asked Jesus, ‘Let us go into the pigs.’ Jesus replied, ‘You can go into them.’

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Footnotes

  1. 8:30 The man told Jesus that his name was ‘Army’ because he had many bad spirits that were living in him, like an army.
  2. 8:31 The world below is the place where the Devil and all the bad spirits will have to go.