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https://biblehub.com/mark/5-9.htm

New International Version

Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

 

New Living Translation

Then Jesus demanded, “What is your name?” And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man.”

 

English Standard Version

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

 

Berean Standard Bible

“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

 

Berean Literal Bible

And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he says to Him, “Legion is my name, because we are many.”

 

King James Bible

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

 

New King James Version

Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(demons)

 

In the New Testament, Legion (Ancient Greek: λεγιών) is a group of demons, particularly those in two of three versions of the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac, an account in the synoptic Gospels of an incident in which Jesus of Nazareth performs an exorcism. Legion is a large collection of demons that form a group mind, sharing a single mind and will.

 

Development of the story

Main article: Exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac

The earliest version of this story exists in the Gospel of Mark, described as taking place in "the country of the Gerasenes". Jesus encounters a possessed man and calls on the demon to emerge, demanding to know its name – an important element of traditional exorcism practice.[1] He finds the man is possessed by a multitude of demons who give the collective name of "Legion". Fearing that Jesus will drive them out of the world and into the abyss, they beg him instead to cast them into a herd of pigs on a nearby hill, which he does. The pigs then rush into the sea and are drowned (Mark 5:1–5:13).

 

This story is also in the other two Synoptic Gospels. The Gospel of Luke shortens the story but retains most of the details including the name (Luke 8:26–8:33). The Gospel of Matthew shortens it more dramatically, changes the possessed man to two men, with Michael R. Licona noting a tendency by the author to doubling figures from Mark.[2] The location becomes “the country of the Gadarenes”. The author likely was aware that Gerasa is around 50 km (31 mi) from Galilee, though Gadara is still 10 km (6.2 mi) away; ancient biographers could display such differences in detail, with Craig S. Keener noting a comparison with the location of Straton’s governance.[3] In this version, the demons are unnamed.[4][5] (Matthew 8:28–8:32).