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

He answered, “Legion,”[a] because many demons were in him. 31 The demons begged Jesus not to send them into eternal darkness.[b] 32 A large herd of pigs was feeding on a hill, and 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 five thousand 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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