When Jesus left the boat, immediately a man with an evil spirit came from the graveyard to meet Him.
Mark 5:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) This man had been living in the graveyard and no one had been able to keep him tied up, not even with a chain. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This man continually lived among the tombs, and no one could subdue him any more, even with a chain; American Standard Version (1901) who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain; Common English Bible This man lived among the tombs, and no one was ever strong enough to restrain him, even with a chain. Catholic Public Domain Version who had his dwelling place with the tombs; neither had anyone been able to bind him, even with chains. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains. |
When Jesus left the boat, immediately a man with an evil spirit came from the graveyard to meet Him.
He had often been bound with ropes and chains but had broken the chains off and torn the ropes to pieces. And no one had enough strength to subdue him.
For Jesus was commanding the evil spirits to be driven out of the man, because they had been controlling him for a long time. The man was continually being guarded and his hands and feet were bound with chains. [Sometimes] he broke loose from the chains and was driven into the desert by the evil spirits.