"And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones." — Mark 5:5

Mark 5:5 · KJV

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

— Mark 5:5

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.

Verse 6

But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

Mark 5 — Context

Who had {his} dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

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.

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

But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,

And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, {thou} Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:28

And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. {the blood...: Heb. poured out blood upon them}

Job 2:7-8

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

John 8:44

Ye are of {your} father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. {of his own: or, from his own will or disposition}