Bible verse
“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
Mark 5:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Mark 5.
5 Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.
6 When the man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees before Him.
7 And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!”
8 For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”
9 “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
10 And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region.
11 There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
12 So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
13 He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.
KJV
And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
ASV
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many.
ERV
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many.
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