Mark 5:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

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  • Jas 3:7-8 : 7 For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, 8 and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, `it is' an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

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  • Mark 5:2-3
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    2and he having come forth out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

    3who had his dwelling in the tombs, and not even with chains was any one able to bind him,

  • Mark 5:5-13
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    88%

    5and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.

    6And, having seen Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed before him,

    7and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

    8(for he said to him, `Come forth, spirit unclean, out of the man,')

    9and he was questioning him, `What `is' thy name?' and he answered, saying, `Legion `is' my name, because we are many;'

    10and he was calling on him much, that he may not send them out of the region.

    11And there was there, near the mountains, a great herd of swine feeding,

    12and all the demons did call upon him, saying, `Send us to the swine, that into them we may enter;'

    13and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea -- and they were about two thousand -- and they were choked in the sea.

  • Luke 8:26-33
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    26And they sailed down to the region of the Gadarenes, that is over-against Galilee,

    27and he having gone forth upon the land, there met him a certain man, out of the city, who had demons for a long time, and with a garment was not clothed, and in a house was not abiding, but in the tombs,

    28and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'

    29For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters -- guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

    30And Jesus questioned him, saying, `What is thy name?' and he said, `Legion,' (because many demons were entered into him,)

    31and he was calling on him, that he may not command them to go away to the abyss,

    32and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,

    33and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked.

  • Matt 8:28-30
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    28And he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way,

    29and lo, they cried out, saying, `What -- to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

    30And there was far off from them a herd of many swine feeding,

  • Mark 1:25-26
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    25And Jesus rebuked him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him,'

    26and the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him,

  • Luke 9:39-40
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    39and lo, a spirit doth take him, and suddenly he doth cry out, and it teareth him, with foaming, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising him,

    40and I besought thy disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.'

  • Mark 9:20-22
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    20and they brought him unto him, and he having seen him, immediately the spirit tare him, and he, having fallen upon the earth, was wallowing -- foaming.

    21And he questioned his father, `How long time is it since this came to him?' and he said, `From childhood,

    22and many times also it cast him into fire, and into water, that it might destroy him; but if thou art able to do anything, help us, having compassion on us.'

  • Luke 4:33-35
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    33And in the synagogue was a man, having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice,

    34saying, `Away, what -- to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.'

    35And Jesus did rebuke him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him;' and the demon having cast him into the midst, came forth from him, having hurt him nought;

  • Mark 5:15-19
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    76%

    15and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded -- him having had the legion -- and they were afraid;

    16and those having seen `it', declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;

    17and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

    18And he having gone into the boat, the demoniac was calling on him that he may be with him,

    19and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, `Go away to thy house, unto thine own `friends', and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

  • Mark 1:23
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    23And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

  • Mark 9:18
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    18and wherever it doth seize him, it doth tear him, and he foameth, and gnasheth his teeth, and pineth away; and I spake to thy disciples that they may cast it out, and they were not able.'

  • Mark 1:34
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    34and he healed many who were ill of manifold diseases, and many demons he cast forth, and was not suffering the demons to speak, because they knew him.

  • Luke 8:35-36
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    73%

    35and they came forth to see what was come to pass, and they came unto Jesus, and found the man sitting, out of whom the demons had gone forth, clothed, and right-minded, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid;

    36and those also having seen `it', told them how the demoniac was saved.

  • Mark 9:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Jesus having seen that a multitude doth run together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, `Spirit -- dumb and deaf -- I charge thee, come forth out of him, and no more thou mayest enter into him;'

    26and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

  • Acts 19:16
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    16And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,

  • Luke 9:42
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    42and as he is yet coming near, the demon rent him, and tore `him' sore, and Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the youth, and gave him back to his father.

  • Luke 8:38
    72%

    38And the man from whom the demons had gone forth was beseeching of him to be with him, and Jesus sent him away, saying,

  • Matt 17:15
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    15and saying, `Sir, deal kindly with my son, for he is lunatic, and doth suffer miserably, for often he doth fall into the fire, and often into the water,

  • Luke 4:41
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    41And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying -- `Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;' and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

  • Mark 3:21
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    21and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,