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What does Mark 5:9 mean? In this verse, most of the attention is usually placed on the name of the demon: Legion. In the Roman army, a legion was a unit of soldiers. At the time of Augustus, this included 6100 foot soldiers and 726 horsemen. The exact quantity of demons is unknown; the name simply indicates a large number working in concert.
Mark 5-9. New International Version. Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man. 5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[ a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been ...
Mark 5. New International Version. Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man. 5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[ a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been ...
Mark 5:9. τί σοι ὄνομα; instead of saying at once what He had meant to say, Jesus adopts a roundabout method of dealing with the case, and asks the demoniac his name, as if to bring him into composure.—
Mark 5:8 For Jesus had already declared, "Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!" Mark 5:10 And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region. Mark 5:15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons sitting there, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Luke 8:30
Mark 5:9: ver 15; Mark 5:9 in all English translations. Mark 4. Mark 6. New International Version (NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV ...
Mark 5:9. And he asked him, what is thy name? &c.] Which question Christ put, not for his own sake; for he was not ignorant of his name, nor of the number of the unclean spirits which were in the man; but partly, that it might be known what a miserable condition this poor man was in, being infested, and vexed with such a large company of devils; and partly, that his own pity and power in delivering him, might be more manifest;
