Mark 5:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Because, that when he was often bounde with fetters and cheynes, he plucked the cheynes a sunder, and brake the fetters in peeces: Neither coulde any man tame hym.

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  • Jas 3:7-8 : 7 All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man: 8 But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson.

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  • Mark 5:2-3
    2 verses
    93%

    2 And when he was come out of the shippe, immediatly there met hym from among the tombes, a man possessed of an vncleane spirite:

    3 Which had his abidyng among the tombes: And no man coulde bynde him, no not with cheynes,

  • Mark 5:5-13
    9 verses
    88%

    5 And alwayes, nyght and day, he was in the mountaynes, and in the tombes, crying, and beatyng hym selfe with stones.

    6 But when he had spied Iesus a farre of, he ranne, and worshypped hym,

    7 And cried with a loude voyce, & sayde: what haue I to do with thee Iesus thou sonne of the most hyest God? I require thee in the name of God, that thou torment me not.

    8 (For he sayde vnto hym: come out of the man thou foule spirite.)

    9 And he asked hym, what is thy name? And he aunswered and sayd vnto hym: my name is legion, for we are many.

    10 And he prayed hym instantly, that he woulde not sende them away, out of the countrey.

    11 But there was there, nye vnto the mountaynes, a great hearde of swyne feedyng.

    12 And all the deuyls besought hym, saying: sende vs into the swyne, that we may enter into them.

    13 And anone Iesus gaue them leaue. And the vncleane spirites went out, and entred into the swyne: And the hearde ran headlong into the sea, (they were about two thousande,) & were drowned in the sea.

  • Luke 8:26-33
    8 verses
    86%

    26 And they sayled vnto the region of the Gadarenites, which is ouer agaynst Galilee.

    27 And when he went out to lande, there met hym out of the citie a certayne man, which had deuyls long tyme, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house: but in graues.

    28 When he sawe Iesus, and had cryed, he fell downe before hym, and with a loude voyce sayde: What haue I to do with thee Iesus, thou sonne of God most hyest? I beseche thee torment me not.

    29 (For he commaunded the foule spirite to come out of the man: For oftentymes he had caught him, and he was bounde with chaynes, and kept with fetters: & he brake the bandes, and was caryed of the fiende into wildernesse.)

    30 And Iesus asked hym, saying: What is thy name? And he sayde, Legion: because many deuyls were entred into hym.

    31 And they besought hym, that he woulde not commaunde them, to go out into the deepe.

    32 And there was there, an hearde of many swyne, feedyng on an hyll: and they besought hym, that he woulde suffer them to enter into them: and he suffered them.

    33 Then went the deuyls out of the man, and entred into the swyne: And the heard ran headlong with violence into the lake, and were choked.

  • Matt 8:28-30
    3 verses
    78%

    28 And when he was come to the other syde, into the countrey of the Gergesenes, there met hym two, possessed with deuyls, which came out of the graues, and were very fierce, so that no man myght go by that way.

    29 And beholde, they cryed out, saying: O Iesu, thou sonne of God, what haue we to do with thee? Art thou come hyther, to torment vs before the tyme?

    30 And there was, a good way of from them, a hearde of many swyne, feedyng.

  • Mark 1:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25 And Iesus rebuked hym, saying: holde thy peace, and come out of hym.

    26 And when the vncleane spirite hadde torne hym, & cryed with a loude voyce, he came out of hym.

  • Luke 9:39-40
    2 verses
    77%

    39 And see, a spirite taketh hym, and sodenly he cryeth, and teareth hym, that he fometh agayne, & with much payne departeth from him, when he hath rent hym.

    40 And I besought thy disciples to cast hym out, and they coulde not.

  • Mark 9:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20 And they brought him vnto him: And when he sawe hym, strayghtway the spirite tare hym: And he fell downe on the grounde, wallowyng and fomyng.

    21 And he asketh his father, howe longe it is a go sence this came vnto hym? And he sayde, of a chylde.

    22 And oft tymes it hath cast hym into the fire, and into the water, to destroye hym: But yf thou canst do any thyng, haue mercy on vs, and helpe vs.

  • Luke 4:33-35
    3 verses
    76%

    33 And in the synagogue, there was a man, which had an vncleane spirite of a deuyll, and cryed with a loude voyce,

    34 Saying: Oh what haue we to do with thee, thou Iesus of Nazareth? Art thou come to destroy vs? I knowe who thou art, euen the holy one of God.

    35 And Iesus rebuked hym, saying: Holde thy peace, and come out of hym. And when the deuyll had throwen him in the middes, he came out of hym, and hurt hym not.

  • Mark 5:15-19
    5 verses
    76%

    15 And came to Iesus, and sawe hym that was vexed with the fiende, and had the legion, syt, both clothed, and in his right mynde: & they were afraide.

    16 And they that sawe it, tolde them, howe it came to passe to hym that was possessed with the deuyll: and also of the swyne.

    17 And they beganne to pray hym, that he woulde depart out of their coastes.

    18 And when he was come into the shippe, he that had ben possessed with the deuyll, prayed hym, that he myght be with hym.

    19 Howebeit, Iesus woulde not suffer hym, but sayde vnto hym: go home to thy frendes, and shewe them howe great thynges the Lorde hath done for thee, and howe he had compassion on thee.

  • 23 And there was in their synagogue, a man vexed with an vncleane spirite, & he cried,

  • 18 And whensoeuer he taketh hym, he teareth hym, & he fometh, and gnasheth with his teeth, & pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples, that they should cast hym out, and they coulde not.

  • 34 And he healed many, that were sicke of diuers diseases, and caste out many deuyls: and suffred not the deuyls to speake, because they knewe hym.

  • Luke 8:35-36
    2 verses
    73%

    35 Therfore they came out to see what was done, and came to Iesus, & founde the man out of whom the deuyls were departed, sittyng at the feete of Iesus, clothed, & in his ryght mynde, and they were afrayde.

    36 They also which sawe it, tolde them by what meanes he that was possessed of the deuyls, was healed.

  • Mark 9:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25 When Iesus sawe that the people came runnyng together, he rebuked the foule spirite, saying vnto hym: Thou dumbe and deafe spirite, I charge thee come out of hym, and enter no more into hym.

    26 And the spirite, when he had cryed and rent him sore, came out of hym: and he was as one that had ben dead, insomuch that many sayde, he is dead.

  • 16 And the man in whom the euyll spirite was, ran on them, & ouercame the, & preuayled agaynst them, so that they fled out of that house naked & wouded.

  • 42 As he was yet a commyng, the fiende rent hym, and tare hym: And Iesus rebuked the vncleane spirite, and healed the chylde, and deliuered hym to his father.

  • 38 Then the man out of whom the deuyls were departed, besought hym that he myght be with hym. But Iesus sent hym away, saying:

  • 15 Lorde, haue mercy on my sonne, for he is lunaticke, and sore vexed: for oft tymes he falleth into the fyre, and oft into the water.

  • 41 And deuyls also came out of many, crying & saying: Thou art that Christe, the sonne of God. And he rebuked the, and suffred them not to speake: For they knewe that he was Christe.

  • 21 And when they that belonged vnto hym, hearde of it, they went out to laye handes vpon hym: For they sayde, he is madde.