"And he asked him, What {is} thy name? And he answered, saying, My name {is} Legion: for we are many." — Mark 5:9

Mark 5:9 · KJV

“And he asked him, What {is} thy name? And he answered, saying, My name {is} Legion: for we are many.”

— Mark 5:9

For he said unto him, Come out of the man, {thou} unclean spirit.

And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

Mark 5 — Context

And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, {thou} Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

For he said unto him, Come out of the man, {thou} unclean spirit.

And he asked him, What {is} thy name? And he answered, saying, My name {is} Legion: for we are many.

And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

Cross References

Luke 8:30

And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

Mark 5:15

And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

Matthew 26:53

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Matthew 12:45

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last {state} of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Luke 11:21-26

When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: