Luke 16 Luke 16 Luke 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the teachings and parables of Jesus Christ, including the famous parable of the "rich man and Lazarus". The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows: This parable of Jesus appears in Luke, but not in the other Canonical gospels of the New Testament. It tells a story about a
Legion in popular culture Legion in popular culture Legion, the demon of Gadarenes, is the name given in two of three New Testament accounts of the exorcism connected with the Gadarene swine. As the only named demon in the New Testament the name "Legion" has received frequent use in popular culture. The Christian New Testament gospels of Matthew (8:28-34), Mark and Luke describe an incident in which Jesus meets a man, or in Matthew two men, possessed by demons who, in the Mark and Luke versions, when asked what their name is, respond: The miracle of the Gadarene swine is found in many artworks,