³⁰ Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

He answered, “Legion,” because many demons ·were in [had entered] him [^Ca legion was about five thousand Roman soldiers; the sense here is “many”]. ³¹ The demons begged Jesus not to ·send them [^Lcommand them to depart] into ·eternal darkness [the bottomless pit; ^Lthe Abyss]. ³² A large herd of pigs [^Cconsidered ritually unclean by Jews] was feeding on a hill, and the demons begged Jesus to allow them to go into the pigs. So Jesus allowed them to do this.