Mark 5:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³ 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 versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ This man continually lived among the tombs, and no one could subdue him any more, even with a chain;

American Standard Version (1901)

³ who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain;

Common English Bible

³ This man lived among the tombs, and no one was ever strong enough to restrain him, even with a chain.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

Mark 5:3 Cross References

Mark 5:2

When Jesus left the boat, immediately a man with an evil spirit came from the graveyard to meet Him.

Mark 5:4

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.

Luke 8:29

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.