9And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
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And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: …
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)We have here an instance of Christ’s dispossessing the strong man armed, and disposing of him as he pleased, to make it appear that he was stronger than he . This he did when he was come to the other side , whither he went through a storm; his business there was to rescue this poor creature out of the hands of Satan, and when he had done that, he returned. Thus he came from heaven to earth, and re…
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