Luke 8:30
Then Iesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he sayd, Legion, because many deuils were entred into him.
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- Matt 26:53 : 53 Either thinkest thou, that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels?
- Mark 5:9 : 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
- Mark 16:9 : 9 And when Iesus was risen againe, early the first day of the weeke, he appeared first to Marie Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seuen deuils:
- Luke 8:2 : 2 And certaine women, which were healed of euill spirites, and infirmities, as Mary which was called Magdalene, out of whom went seuen deuils,
- Matt 8:29 : 29 And beholde, they cryed out, saying, Iesus the sonne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to tormet vs before ye time?
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- Mark 5:7-104 verses91%
7 And cryed with a loude voyce, and saide, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of the most high God? I will that thou sweare to me by God, that thou torment me not.
8 (For hee saide vnto him, Come out of the man, thou vncleane spirit.)
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? and hee answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And hee prayed him instantly, that hee would not send them away out of the countrey.
- Luke 8:26-294 verses86%
26 So they sailed vnto the region of the Gadarenes, which is ouer against Galile.
27 And as he went out to land, there met him a certaine man out of the citie, which had deuils long time, and he ware no garment, neither abode in house, but in the graues.
28 And when he sawe Iesus, he cryed out and fell downe before him, and with a loude voyce sayd, What haue I to doe with thee, Iesus the Sonne of God the most High? I beseech thee torment me not.
29 For he commanded ye foule spirit to come out of the man: (for oft times he had caught him: therefore he was bound with chaines, and kept in fetters: but he brake the bands, and was caried of the deuill into wildernesses.)
- Luke 8:31-388 verses83%
31 And they besought him, that he would not commaund them to goe out into the deepe.
32 And there was there by, an hearde of many swine, feeding on an hill: and the deuils besought him, that he would suffer them to enter into them. So he suffered them.
33 Then went the deuils out of the man, and entred into the swine: and the hearde was caried with violence from a steepe downe place into the lake, and was choked.
34 When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.
35 Then they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, and found the man, out of whom the deuils were departed, sitting at the feete of Iesus, clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afrayd.
36 They also which saw it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed with the deuill, was healed.
37 Then the whole multitude of the countrey about the Gadarenes, besought him that he would depart from them: for they were taken with a great feare: and he went into the ship, and returned.
38 Then the man, out of whome the deuils were departed, besought him that hee might be with him: but Iesus sent him away, saying,
- Matt 8:28-347 verses81%
28 And when he was come to the other side into ye countrey of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with deuils, which came out of the graues very fierce, so that no man might goe by that way.
29 And beholde, they cryed out, saying, Iesus the sonne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hither to tormet vs before ye time?
30 Nowe there was, afarre off from them, a great heard of swine feeding.
31 And the deuils besought him, saying, If thou cast vs out, suffer vs to goe into the heard of swine.
32 And he said vnto them, Go. So they went out and departed into the heard of swine: and beholde, the whole heard of swine ranne headlong into the sea, and died in the water.
33 Then the heardmen fled: and when they were come into the citie, they tolde all things, and what was become of them that were possessed with the deuils.
34 And beholde, all ye citie came out to meete Iesus: and when they sawe him, they besought him to depart out of their coastes.
- Mark 5:12-187 verses79%
12 And all ye deuils besought him, saying, Send vs into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And incontinently Iesus gaue them leaue. Then the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swine, and the heard ranne headlong from the high banke into the sea, (and there were about two thousand swine) and they were choked vp in the sea.
14 And the swineheards fled, and told it in the citie, and in the countrey, and they came out to see what it was that was done.
15 And they came to Iesus, and sawe him that had bene possessed with the deuil, and had the legion, sit both clothed, and in his right minde: and they were afraide.
16 And they that saw it, tolde them, what was done to him that was possessed with the deuil, and concerning the swine.
17 Then they began to pray him, that hee would depart from their coastes.
18 And when he was come into the shippe, he that had bene possessed with the deuil, prayed him that he might be with him.
- Mark 1:23-275 verses78%
23 And there was in their Synagogue a man in whome was an vncleane spirite, and hee cried out,
24 Saying, Ah, what haue we to do with thee, O Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I knowe thee what thou art, euen that holy one of God.
25 And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him.
26 And the vncleane spirit tare him, & cried with a loude voyce, and came out of him.
27 And they were all amased, so that they demaunded one of another, saying, What thing is this? what newe doctrine is this? for he commandeth euen the foule spirites with authoritie, and they obey him.
- Mark 5:2-43 verses77%
2 And when he was come out of the shippe, there met him incontinently out of the graues, a man which had an vncleane spirit:
3 Who had his abiding among the graues, and no man could binde him, no not with chaines:
4 Because that when hee was often bounde with fetters and chaines, he plucked the chaines asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces, neither could any man tame him.
- Luke 4:33-364 verses77%
33 And in the Synagogue there was a man which had a spirit of an vncleane deuill, which cryed with a loude voyce,
34 Saying, Oh, what haue we to doe with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy vs? I know who thou art, euen the holy one of God.
35 And Iesus rebuked him, saying, Holde thy peace, and come out of him. Then the deuill throwing him in the middes of them, came out of him, and hurt him nothing at all.
36 So feare came on them all, and they spake among themselues, saying, What thing is this: for with authoritie and power he commaundeth the foule spirits, and they come out?
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11 And when the vncleane spirits sawe him, they fel downe before him, & cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.
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41 And deuils also came out of many, crying, and saying, Thou art that Christ that Sonne of God: but he rebuked them, and suffered them not to say that they knewe him to be that Christ.
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34 And he healed many that were sicke of diuers diseases: and he cast out many deuils, & suffred not the deuils to say that they knewe him.
- Mark 9:25-262 verses74%
25 When Iesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the vncleane spirit, saying vnto him, Thou domme & deafe spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, & enter no more into him.
26 Then the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out, and he was as one dead, in so much that many said, He is dead.
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30 Because they saide, Hee had an vncleane spirit.
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39 And loe, a spirit taketh him, and suddenly he crieth, and he teareth him, that he fometh, and hardly departeth from him, when he hath bruised him.
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20 And many of them sayd, He hath a deuill, and is mad: why heare ye him?