Then Jesus demanded, “What is your name?”

And he replied, “My name is Legion, because there are many of us inside this man.”

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30 Jesus demanded, “What is your name?”

“Legion,” he replied, for he was filled with many demons.

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15 A crowd soon gathered around Jesus, and they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons. He was sitting there fully clothed and perfectly sane, and they were all afraid.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 26:53 Greek twelve legions.

21 For when a strong man is fully armed and guards his palace, his possessions are safe— 22 until someone even stronger attacks and overpowers him, strips him of his weapons, and carries off his belongings.

23 “Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.

24 “When an evil[a] 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.’ 25 So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and in order. 26 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.”

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  1. 11:24 Greek unclean.

45 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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