Mark 5:2 - Plain English Version

^2-5 There was a man there that had a bad spirit in him. He was like a crazy man. He camped in the cemetery there. Before Jesus came to that place, that man walked around in the cemetery, and all over the hills there, and he yelled out and screamed all the time. He did that in the day time and also at night time. And he cut himself with stones. People couldn’t tie him up, not even with chains. They tried to do that lots of times. They tied up his hands and his feet, but it was no good. He was too strong. He just broke those chains every time. Nobody was strong enough to hold him or make him sit down quiet. When Jesus got out of the boat,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And as soon as He got out of the boat, there met Him out of the tombs a man [under the power] of an unclean spirit.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

Common English Bible

² As soon as Jesus got out of the boat, a man possessed by an evil spirit came out of the tombs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And as he was departing from the boat, he was immediately met, from among the tombs, by a man with an unclean spirit,

Mark 5:2 Cross References

Mark 1:23

Then, in the middle of the meeting, a man with a bad spirit in him called out,

Mark 1:26

The bad spirit knocked the man down and made him shake and scream out loud as it came out of him, and then it went away.

Mark 3:30

That’s what Jesus said to those Jewish law teachers. You see, they reckoned that Jesus had a bad spirit in him. That is the reason why Jesus talked so straight to them.

Mark 3:9

Jesus made lots of people better that day, and a lot more people wanted to touch him to get better too. A lot of people pushed up close to him, so he said to his followers, “Get a boat ready for me. I might need more room. If they push me too much, I will get up on that boat.”

Mark 4:1

Jesus went down to the lake again, and he started to teach people. A big mob of people went to listen to him, so he got into a boat and sat in it. He was a little bit away from the dry ground. All the people stayed on the dry ground and listened to his words.

Mark 4:36

So they left all the other people behind, and his followers started to take him across the lake in their boat. Some other people got into their boats and followed them.

Mark 5:21

Jesus and his followers got back into the boat and went to the other side of the lake. A really big mob of people were waiting for them there, beside the water.

Mark 7:25

There was a woman in that town that was not a Jewish woman. She was from a place called Fonisha, in Syria country. Her daughter had a bad spirit inside her, so that woman went to Jesus to get help. She got down on her knees in front of Jesus, to show him respect, and she asked him to force the bad spirit out of her daughter.