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

⁵ And night and day, in the graveyard and in the mountains, he was always shouting out and cutting himself with [sharp] rocks.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

Common English Bible

⁵ Night and day in the tombs and the hills, he would howl and cut himself with stones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ 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

⁵ And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 5:5 Cross References

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.

Mark 5:6

When he saw Jesus from far away he ran to Him and worshiped Him.

John 8:44

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.