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For he had been bound often with shackles for the feet and [a]handcuffs, but the handcuffs of [light] chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he rubbed and ground together and broke in pieces; and no one had strength enough to restrain or tame him.

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always [b]shrieking and screaming and [c]beating and bruising and [d]cutting himself with stones.

And when from a distance he saw Jesus, he ran and fell on his knees before Him in homage,

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 5:4 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Mark 5:5 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Mark 5:5 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary.
  4. Mark 5:5 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.

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