Mark 5:9
And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”
English Majority Text (NT)
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 was saying to him, “Come out from the man, unclean spirit!”
10And he was imploring Him many times that He would not send them out of the region.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then he goes and takes along with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and entering in they dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Thus it shall also be with this wicked generation.” 1 Changed Relationships
Mark 5:15Then they came to Jesus, and observed him who had been demon-possessed and had the legion, sitting and having been clothed and being of sound mind, and they were afraid.
Luke 11:21When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions 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 →