Mark 5:9 Cross References

Mark 5:9

9: Then Jesus asked, "What is your name?" And the spirit replied, "Legion, because there are many of us here inside this man."

"What is your name?" Jesus asked. "Legion," he replied--for the man was filled with many demons.

Don't you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and he would send them instantly?

A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, but they were frightened when they saw the man who had been demon possessed, for he was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly sane.

For when Satan, who is completely armed, guards his palace, it is safe--
until someone who is stronger attacks and overpowers him, strips him of his weapons, and carries off his belongings.
"Anyone who isn't helping me opposes me, and anyone who isn't working with me is actually working against me.
"When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.'
So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and clean.

Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before. That will be the experience of this evil generation."

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