³⁰ Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

⁵³ Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?^(A)

² and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene)^(A) from whom seven demons had come out;

[The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have verses 9–20.]

⁹ When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene,^(A) out of whom he had driven seven demons.

²⁹ “What do you want with us,^(A) Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”^(B)

⁹ Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”

“My name is Legion,”^(A) he replied, “for we are many.”