Mark 5:5

Night and day, on the mountains and among the tombs, he would continually cry out and cut himself with stones.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he tore the chains apart and broke the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

6When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him.

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Matthew Henry on Mark 5:2-21

The Expulsion of Legion. 1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 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. 5 And always, night and… Read the whole commentary →

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