Mark 5:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And He asked him, What is your name? He replied, My name is Legion, for we are many.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He responded, “Legion is my name, because we are many.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he questioned him: "What is your name?" And he said to him, "My name is Legion, for we are many."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Mark 5:9 Cross References

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”

Matthew 26:53

Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Mark 5:10

And he begged him eagerly not to send them out of the country.

Mark 5:15

And they came to Jesus, and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the man who had the legion; and they were afraid.

Mark 5:8

For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

Luke 8:30

Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion”; for many demons had entered him.