Mark 5:3
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
Mark 5:3 in other translations
| BSB | This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains. |
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| WEB | He lived in the tombs. Nobody could bind him any more, not even with chains, |
| ASV | who had his dwelling in the tombs: and no man could any more bind him, no, not with a chain; |
| YLT | who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him, |
| DARBY | who had his dwelling in the tombs; and no one was able to bind him, not even with chains; |
| BBE | He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain; |
| Webster | Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: |
What does Mark 5:3 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 5:1-20
Some openly wilful sinners are like this madman. The commands of the law are as chains and fetters, to restrain sinners from their wicked courses; but they break those bands in sunder; and it is an evidence of the power of the devil in them. A legion of soldiers consisted of six thousand men, or more. What multitudes of fallen spirits there must be, and all enemies to God and man, when here was a legion in one poor…
Mark 5:3 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 5:3
- Isaiah 65:4
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
- Luke 8:29
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
- Daniel 4:32-33
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Mark 9:18-22
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. …
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Context
- Mark 5:2
And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
- Mark 5:3
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
- Mark 5:4
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Mark 5:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que tenía domicilio en los sepulcros, y ni aun con cadenas le podía alguien atar; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et qui avait sa demeure dans les sépulcres, sortant des sépulcres, le rencontra; et personne ne pouvait le lier, pas même avec des chaînes; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | der seine Wohnung in den Grabstätten hatte; und selbst mit Ketten konnte keiner ihn binden, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui domicilium habebat in monumentis, et neque catenis jam quisquam poterat eum ligare: |