Mark 5:9
And he asked him: What is your name? And he said to him: My name is Legion; for we are many.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
In Context
8For he had said to him: Unclean spirit, come out of the man.
10And he earnestly besought him that he would not send them out of the country.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then he goes and takes 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. So shall it be with this wicked generation.
Mark 5:15and they came to Jesus and saw the demoniac, who had had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Luke 11:21When the strong man armed keeps guard over his palace, his goods are in peace;
Matthew Henry on Mark 5:2-21
The Expulsion of Legion. 1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and… Read the whole commentary →