Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.’
Mark 5:9 - New International Version (Anglicised) Then Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ ‘My name is Legion,’ he replied, ‘for we are many.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.’
Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.
When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.
For Jesus had said to him, ‘Come out of this man, you impure spirit!’
Jesus asked him, ‘What is your name?’ ‘Legion,’ he replied, because many demons had gone into him.