Luke 8:30

30 “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons 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 When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”

29 For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.

30 “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

31 And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

32 There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.