Mark 5:9

Mark 5:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
• New International Version (NIV)Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many."
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then He asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

Context of Mark 5:9

7and crying with a loud voice he says, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not. 8For he said to him, Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the man. And he asked him, What is thy name? And he says to him, Legion is my name, because we are many. 10And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 11Now there was there just at the mountain a great herd of swine feeding;

Mark 5:9 word by word

Καὶ ἐπηρώτα αὐτόν· τί ὄνομά σοι; καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ· λεγιὼν ὄνομά μοι ὅτι πολλοί ἐσμεν.Read the interlinear

• askedἐπερωτάωeperōtaō · to questionG1905
• isεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• nameὄνομαonoma · nameG3686
• saysλέγωlegō · to sayG3004
• Legionλεγεώνlegeōn · LegionG3003
• manyπολύςpolus polos · muchG4183

Cross-references for Mark 5:9

• Luke 8:30And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: for many demons had entered into him.
• Luke 11:21When the strong [man] armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;
• Matthew 12:45Then he goes and takes with himself seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first. Thus shall it be to this wicked generation also.
• Matthew 26:53Or thinkest thou that I cannot now call upon my Father, and he will furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

Commentaries on Mark 5:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Legion: for we are many - Could a disease have spoken so? "No, there was no devil in the case; the man spoke according to the prejudice of his countrymen." And do you think that the Spirit of God could employ himself in retailing such ridiculous and nonsensical prejudices? "But the evangelist gives these as this madman's words, and it was necessary that, as a faithful historian, he should mention these circumstances." But this objection is destroyed by…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-20Verses 1-20 See this account of the demoniacs fully explained in the notes at Matthew 8:28-34. Mark 5:4 He had been often bound with fetters and chains - Efforts had been made to confine him, but his great strength - his strength increased by his malady - had prevented it. There often appears to be a great increase of strength produced by insanity, and what is here stated in regard to this maniac often occurs in Palestine and elsewhere now. Dr. Thomson…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9A legion was a Roman military unit of 5,000–6,000 men. Here it describes the presence of many evil spirits.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. And he asked him, What is thy name?--The object of this question was to extort an acknowledgment of the virulence of demoniacal power by which this victim was enthralled. And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many--or, as in Luke (Lu 8:30) "because many devils [demons] were entered into him." A legion, in the Roman army, amounted, at its full complement, to six thousand; but here the word is used, as such words with us, and even this…Read the comment

Topics related to Mark 5:9

• Demons
• Gadarenes
• Jesus, the Christ
• Legion
• Miracles

In the dictionaries

• Choke
• Clothes
• Devil
• Gergesa
• Legion
• Lie
• Straightway
• Throng
• Whole
• Worse

Commentaries on Mark 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings