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30 Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

The man answered, “Legion.”[a] (He said his name was “Legion” because many demons were in him.) 31 The demons begged Jesus not to send them into eternal darkness.[b] 32 On the hill there was a large herd of pigs eating. The demons begged Jesus to allow them to go into the pigs. So Jesus allowed them to do this.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:30 “Legion” Means very many. A legion was about 5,000 men in the Roman army.
  2. 8:31 eternal darkness Literally, “the abyss,” something like a pit or a hole that has no end.

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