Mark 5:9 Cross References - AUV

⁹ Then He asked [the evil spirit], “What is your name?” And he answered Him, “My name is ‘Legion,’ [Note: This word means a number consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000], for there are many of us [i.e., evil spirits].”

⁴⁵ Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits, more evil than itself, and they reenter [the body] and [begin to] live there, so that the latter state of that person becomes worse than the former [state]. It will be the same way with the people of this evil generation.”

⁵³ Or, do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father and He will immediately send me more than twelve legions of angels [i.e., Jesus could have called about 72,000 angels to minister to Him. See Matt. 4:11]?

¹⁵ And when people came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been dominated by 5,000 to 6,000 evil spirits sitting down with his clothes on and perfectly sane, and they were afraid.

³⁰ Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” And he answered, “ [My name is] ‘Legion’” [Note: This word means a number consisting of between 5,000 and 6,000], for many evil spirits had entered the man.

²¹ When a fully armed strong man guards his own courtyard [i.e., homestead], his possessions are safe. ²² But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away all the armament the strong man relied on, and [then] divides up his storehouse of possessions. [Note: The word here translated “possessions” may be translated “arms” so the meaning could be “divides up his armament”]. ²³ The person who is not on my side is [actually] against me. And the person who does not gather [people to me] is [actually] driving them away [from me]. ²⁴ “When an evil spirit has been driven out of a man, it roams through desert regions trying to find rest, but [when it] cannot find any, it says [to itself], ‘I will return to my house from which I came [i.e., the body of the person it dominated].’ ²⁵ But when it returns [to that body] it finds it cleaned out and [newly] decorated. ²⁶ Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits, more evil than itself, and they reenter [the body] and [begin] to live there, so that the latter state of that person becomes worse than the former state.”