Mark 5:5

Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting 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

4because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

6When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

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Cross References

Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

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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