Mark 5:9
Jesus also questioned him. "What is your name?" He said. "Legion," he replied, "for there are a host of us."
Weymouth NT (1912)
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, "Foul spirit, come out of the man."
10And he earnestly entreated Him not to send them away out of the country.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45Then he goes and brings back with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they come in and dwell there; and in the end that man's condition becomes worse than it was at first. So will it be also with the present wicked generation."
Mark 5:15and when they came to Jesus, they beheld the demoniac quietly seated, clothed and of sane mind--the man who had had the legion; and they were awe-stricken.
Luke 11:21"Whenever a strong man, fully armed and equipped, is guarding his own castle, he enjoys peaceful possession of his property;
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 →