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.
Mark 5:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) And night and day, in the graveyard and in the mountains, he was always shouting out and cutting himself with [sharp] rocks. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always shrieking and screaming and beating and bruising and cutting himself with stones. American Standard Version (1901) And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones. Common English Bible Night and day in the tombs and the hills, he would howl and cut himself with stones. Catholic Public Domain Version And he was always, day and night, among the tombs, or in the mountains, crying out and cutting himself with stones. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones. |
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.
You belong to your father the devil, and you are [always] wanting to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the [very] beginning [Note: This is probably a reference to Satan’s influence on Adam, Eve and Cain in the Garden of Eden] and does not stand for the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he only speaks what is part of his nature, because he is a liar and the father of [all] liars.