Mark 5:9
And he axed him: what is thy name? And he answered sayinge: my name is Legion for we are many.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
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 sayd vnto hym: come out of the man thou fowle sprete.
10And he prayd him instantly that he wolde not sende the awaye out of the countre.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then he goeth his waye and taketh vnto him seven other spretes worsse then himsilfe and so entre they in and dwell there. And the ende of that man is worsse then the beginning. Even so shall it be with this evell nacion.
Mark 5:15and came to Iesus and sawe hym that was vexed wt the fende and had the legio syt both clothed and in his right mynde and were afrayed.
Luke 11:21When a stronge man armed watcheth his housse: yt he possesseth 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 →