Mark 5:9
Good News Translation
So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" The man answered, "My name is 'Mob'--there are so many of us!"

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus asked, "What is your name?" The man answered, "My name is Lots, because I have 'lots' of evil spirits."

New American Bible
He asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Legion is my name. There are many of us.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.

What.

Luke 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

Luke 11:21-26 When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth. . . .

Legion.

Matthew 12:45 Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

Matthew 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

Context
The Demons and the Pigs
8For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 9And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many. 10And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.…
Cross References
Matthew 12:45
Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.

Matthew 26:53
Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

Mark 5:8
For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

Mark 5:10
And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.

Mark 5:15
And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.

Luke 8:30
And Jesus asked him, saying: What is thy name? But he said: Legion. Because many devils were entered into him.

Mark 5:8
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