Mark 5:9
And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is Legion, for we are many.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
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 said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
10And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the country.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then he goeth, and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is made worse than the first. So shall it be also to this wicked generation.
Mark 5:15And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.
Luke 11:21When a strong man armed keepeth his court, those things are in peace which he possesseth.
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 →