Mark 5:9

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Mark 5:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 And he shouted in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You before God not to torture me!”

8 For Jesus had already declared, “Come out of this man, you unclean spirit!”

9 “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”

10 And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region.

11 There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Luke 8:30

“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

Luke 11:21

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his house, his possessions are secure.

Luke 11:22

But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.

Luke 11:23

He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

Luke 11:24

When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’

Luke 11:25

On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.

Luke 11:26

Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.”

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”

Matthew 26:53

Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?