What Is Your Name Legion

Background. The Christian New Testament gospels of Matthew (8:28–34), Mark and Luke describe an incident in which Jesus meets a man, or in Matthew two men, possessed by demons who, in the Mark and Luke versions, when asked what their name is, respond: “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

Who is legion in the Bible?

Legion is a demon or group of demons, particularly those in two of three versions of the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac, an account in the New Testament of an incident in which Jesus performs an exorcism.

How many are a legion in the Bible?

A legion was the name given to a division of the Roman army. The number of men in a legion changed over time. In the time of the New Testament, it was ideally 6000 men divided into ten cohorts, and each cohort into six “centuries” or divisions of 100.

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