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30 Jesus asked the man,[a] “What’s your name?”

He answered, “Legion,”[b] because many demons had gone into him. 31 Then the demons[c] began begging Jesus[d] not to order them to go into the bottomless pit.[e]

32 Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons[f] begged Jesus[g] to let them go into those pigs, and he consented to that.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 8:30 Lit. him
  2. Luke 8:30 A Roman legion consisted of about 6,000 men.
  3. Luke 8:31 Lit. they
  4. Luke 8:31 Lit. him
  5. Luke 8:31 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
  6. Luke 8:32 Lit. they
  7. Luke 8:32 Lit. him