Luke 8:30

Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" The man answered, "Legion." (He said his name was "Legion" because many demons had gone into him.)

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“What is your name?”

King James Version (1611)
And Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many deuils were entred into him.

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

English Standard Version
Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," for many demons had entered him.

New American Standard Bible
And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; because many demons had entered him.

New Century Version
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "Legion," because many demons were in him.

Amplified Bible
Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion"; because many demons had entered him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," for many demons had entered him.

Berean Standard Bible
"What is your name?" Jesus asked. "Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked the man, "What is your name?" He answered, "My name is Lots." He said this because there were ‘lots' of demons in him.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he said, because many demons had entered him.

Darby Translation
And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: for many demons had entered into him.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? and he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus asked him, What is your name? He said, Legion, because many demons had entered into him.

Good News Translation
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "My name is ‘Mob,'" he answered—because many demons had gone into him.

Lexham English Bible
So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered into him.

Literal Translation
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is your name? And he said, Legion (because many demons entered into him).

American Standard Version
And Jesus asked him, What is thy name? And he said, Legion; for many demons were entered into him.

Bible in Basic English
And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone into him.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.

International Standard Version
Jesus asked him, "What's your name?" He answered, "Legion,"[fn] because many demons had gone into him.

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

Murdock Translation
And Jesus demanded of him: What is thy name? And he said to him: Legion: because many demons had entered into him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iesus asked hym, saying: What is thy name? And he sayde, Legion: because many deuyls were entred into hym.

English Revised Version
And Jesus asked him, What is thy name? And he said, Legion; for many devils were entered into him.

World English Bible
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," for many demons had entered into him.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion; because many devils had entered into him.

Weymouth's New Testament
"What is your name?" Jesus asked him. "Legion," he replied--because a great number of demons had entered into him;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Jhesus axide hym, and seide, What name is to thee? And he seide, A legioun; for many deuelis weren entrid in to hym.

Update Bible Version
And Jesus asked him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for many demons went into him.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many demons had entered into him.

New English Translation
Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion," because many demons had entered him.

New King James Version
Jesus asked him, saying, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered him.

New Living Translation
Jesus demanded, "What is your name?" "Legion," he replied, for he was filled with many demons.

New Life Bible
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And the demon answered, "Many," because many demons had gone into him.

New Revised Standard
Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Jesus questioned him - What name hast thou? And, he, said - Legion! because many demons had entered into him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus then asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And Iesus axed him sayinge: what is thy name? And he sayde: Legion because many devyls were entred into him.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jesus questioned him, saying, `What is thy name?' and he said, `Legion,' (because many demons were entered into him,)

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iesus axed him, and sayde: What is thy name? He sayde: Legion. For there were many deuels entred in to him.

Mace New Testament (1729)
upon Jesus's saying to him, what is your name? he answer'd, legion, (for many demons were enter'd into him.)

THE MESSAGE
Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Mob. My name is Mob," he said, because many demons afflicted him. And they begged Jesus desperately not to order them to the bottomless pit.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus asked, "What do they call you?"The demon responded, "They call me Legion. We are too many to count."

Contextual Overview

²² One day Jesus and his followers got into a boat. He said to them, "Come with me across the lake." And so they started across. ²³ While they were sailing, Jesus slept. A big storm blew across the lake, and the boat began to fill with water. They were in danger. ²⁴ The followers went to Jesus and woke him. They said, "Master! Master! We will drown!" Jesus got up. He gave a command to the wind and the waves. The wind stopped, and the lake became calm. ²⁵ He said to his followers, "Where is your faith?" They were afraid and amazed. They said to each other, "What kind of man is this? He commands the wind and the water, and they obey him." ²⁶ Jesus and his followers sailed on across the lake. They sailed to the area where the Gerasene people live, across from Galilee. ²⁷ When Jesus got out of the boat, a man from that town came to him. This man had demons inside him. For a long time he had worn no clothes. He did not live in a house but in the caves where the dead are buried. ²⁸The demon inside the man had often seized him, and he had been put in jail with his hands and feet in chains. But he would always break the chains. The demon inside him would force him to go out to the places where no one lived. Jesus commanded the evil spirit to come out of the man. When the man saw Jesus, he fell down before him, shouting loudly, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Please, don't punish me!" ³⁰ Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" The man answered, "Legion." (He said his name was "Legion" because many demons had gone into him.) ³¹ The demons begged Jesus not to send them into the bottomless pit. ³² On that hill there was a big herd of pigs eating. The demons begged Jesus to allow them to go into the pigs. So he allowed them to do this.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Legion: Matthew 26:53, Mark 5:9

many: Luke 8:2, Matthew 8:29, Mark 16:9

Reciprocal: Matthew 8:31 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jesus asked him, saying, what is thy name?.... This question was put, not out of ignorance in Christ, but for the sake of those that were with him; and partly, that the miserable condition of this man might be the more known; and partly, that his own power might be the more manifest in the dispossession:

and he said, legion, because many devils were entered into him;

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the Matthew 8:23-34 notes, and Mark 5:1-20 notes.