Luke 8:30
“And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.”
When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?”
“Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?”
“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.”
“And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.”
“Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.”