Luke 8:30

30 And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone 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 And when he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry and went down on the earth before him and in a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Do not be cruel to me.

29 For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.

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

31 And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep.

32 Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.