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Luke 8:31

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And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

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  1. Luke 8:29

    (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.)

  2. Luke 8:30

    And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

  3. Luke 8:32

    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.

  4. Luke 8:33

    Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

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