Mark 5:9
and he was questioning him, 'What [is] thy name?' and he answered, saying, 'Legion [is] my name, because we are many;'
Young's Literal Translation
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
8(for he said to him, 'Come forth, spirit unclean, out of the man,')
10and he was calling on him much, that he may not send them out of the region.
Cross References
Matthew 12:45then doth it go, and take with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having gone in they dwell there, and the last of that man doth become worse than the first; so shall it be also to this evil generation.'
Mark 5:15and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded — him having had the legion — and they were afraid;
Luke 11:21'When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;
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 →