Mark 5:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

Mark 5:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 65:4
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Luke 8:29
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
Daniel 4:32-33
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. …
Mark 9:18-22
And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-20)

We have here an instance of Christ’s dispossessing the strong man armed, and disposing of him as he pleased, to make it appear that he was stronger than he. This he did when he was come to the other side, whither he went through a storm; his business there was to rescue this poor creature out of the hands of Satan, and when he had done that, he returned. Thus he came from heaven to earth, and retu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. Who had his dwelling among the tombs--Luke (Lu 8:27) says, “He ware no clothes, neither abode in any house.” These tombs were hewn out of the rocky caves of the locality, and served for shelters and lurking places (Lu 8:26).