KJV King James Version
And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Mark 5:9
And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
WEB World English Bible
He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”
ASV American Standard Version
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and he was questioning him, ‘What is thy name?’ and he answered, saying, ‘Legion is my name, because we are many;’
Surrounding context — Mark 5
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, [thou] unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΚαὶG2532 · kaiandἐπηρώταG1905 · eperōtaōto questionαὐτόν·G846 · autosit/s/heτίG5101 · tiswhich?ὄνομάG3686 · onomanameσοι;G4771 · suyouκαὶG2532 · kaiandλέγειG3004 · legōto sayαὐτῷ·G846 · autosit/s/heλεγιὼνG3003 · legeōnLegionὄνομάG3686 · onomanameμοιG3165 · memeὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatπολλοίG4183 · polusmuchἐσμεν.G1510 · eimito be
Cross-references
Luke 8:30And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.Mark 5:15And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.Matthew 26:53Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?Matthew 12:45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last [state] of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.Luke 11:21-26When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
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