Mark 5:9
And he questioned him, How is thy name? And he said to him, Legion is our name, because we are many.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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, Come forth from the man, unclean spirit!
10And he besought him much that he would not send him out of the region.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then he goeth and taketh with him seven other spirits, than himself more wicked, and they enter and dwell in him. And the end of that man is worse than his beginning. So shall it be with this wicked race!
Mark 5:15And they came to Jeshu, and saw him who (had had) the devils, sitting, clothed, and sane; him, who had had in him the legion and they were afraid.
Luke 11:21When the strong one armed keepeth his court, his possession is 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 →