legion

I guess there’s some sort of new horror movie out called Legion.  I’m sure there’s some people who think “Legion” is just a name that happened to be chosen, but they would be making a common mistake–not knowing how often American literature, art, and cinema make reference to the Bible.  Believe it or not, Legion is taken from Mark chapter five, verses one through sixteen:

And they came over to the other side of the Sea [of Galilee], into the country of the Gadarenes.  And when he had come off the ship, immediately a man met him out of the tombs, who had an unclean spirit.  He lived among the tombs, and no one could tie him up, not even with chains.  For he had often been bound up with fetters and chains, and the chains were torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces.  And no one could tame him.  And always, day and night, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.  But when he saw Jesus far away, he ran and bowed down to him, and cried out with a loud voice, and said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?  I adjure you by God not to torment me.”

For he said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”  And he asked him, “What’s your name?”

And he answered, saying, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”  And he begged him not to send them away into the country.  Now near the mountains there was a great herd of swine feeding.  And all the demons were pleading with him, saying, “Send us into the swine, so that we can enter into them.”  And then Jesus gave them permission.  And the unclean spirits went out and entered into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep slope into the sea.  There were about two thousand of them, and they drowned in the sea.  And those who fed the swine ran away and told people about this in the city and in the country.  And they went out to see what had been done.  And they came to Jesus, and saw the man who had been inhabited by the demon, and had the legion, sitting, clothed, and in his right mind, and they were afraid.  And the people who saw this told them what had happened to the man who had the demon, and also about the swine.

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