Luke 8:30

Amplified Bible

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

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.

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.)

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

²²Now on one of those days Jesus and His disciples got into a boat, and He said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake (Sea of Galilee)." So they set out. ²³But as they were sailing, He fell asleep. And a fierce gale of wind swept down [as if through a wind tunnel] on the lake, and they began to be swamped, and were in great danger. ²⁴They came to Jesus and woke Him, saying, "Master, Master, we are about to die!" He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging, violent waves, and they ceased, and it became calm [a perfect peacefulness]. ²⁵And He said to them, "Where is your faith [your confidence in Me]?" They were afraid and astonished, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that He commands even the winds and the sea, and they obey Him?" ²⁶Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is east of Galilee. ²⁷Now when Jesus stepped out on land, He was met by a man from the city [of Gerasa] who was possessed with demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and was not living in a house, but among the tombs. ²⁸Seeing Jesus, he cried out [with a terrible voice from the depths of his throat] and fell down before Him [in dread and terror], and shouted loudly, "What business do we have [in common] with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me [before the appointed time of judgment]!" ²⁹Now He was [already] commanding the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him [violently] many times; and he was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert. ³⁰Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, "Legion"; because many demons had entered him.³¹They continually begged Him not to command them to go into the abyss.

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.