Luke 8:30

30 And Iesus axed him sayinge: what is thy name? And he sayde: Legion because many devyls were entred into him.

Luke 8:30 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 8:30

And Jesus asked him, saying, what is thy name?
&c.] 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;
(See Gill on Mark 5:9).

Luke 8:30 In-Context

28 When he sawe Iesus he cryed and fell doune before him and with a loude voyce sayde: What have I to do with the Iesus the sonne of the God moost hyest? I beseche the torment me not.

29 Then he comaunded ye foule sprete to come out of the man. For ofte tymes he caught him and he was bounde with chaynes and kept with fetters: and he brake the bondes and was caryed of the fende into wyldernes.

30 And Iesus axed him sayinge: what is thy name? And he sayde: Legion because many devyls were entred into him.

31 And they besought him yt he wolde not comaunde the to goo out into ye depe.

32 And ther was there by an heerde of many swyne fedynge on an hyll: and they besought him yt he wolde soffre the to enter into the. And he soffred the.