Luke 8:30

And Jeshu demanded of him, What is thy name? He saith to him, Legion: because that many devils had entered into him.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

29For Jeshu commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man. For long was the time that he had been enthralled of him; and (when) bound with chains, and kept with fetters, he had burst asunder his bonds, and had been driven by the demon into the waste.

31And they besought from him that he would not cast them out to go into the abyss.

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Cross References

Matthew 8:29And they shouted, saying, What to us, and to thee, Jeshu, son of Aloha? Hast thou come hither before the time, to torment us?

Mark 5:9And he questioned him, How is thy name? And he said to him, Legion is our name, because we are many.

Luke 8:2and those women who had been healed from infirmities and from evil spirits, Mariam who was called Magdalitha, she from whom he had cast out seven devils,

Matthew Henry on Luke 8:23-40

Christ's Power over the Winds; Christ's Power over the Devils. 22 Now it came to pass on a certain day, that he went into a ship with his disciples: and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake. And they launched forth. 23 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. 24 And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the… Read the whole commentary →

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