Mark 3:11

Contemporary English Version

And whenever any evil spirits saw Jesus, they would fall to the ground and shout, "You are the Son of God!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God!”

King James Version (1611)
And vncleane spirits, when they saw him, fell downe before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.

King James Version
And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

English Standard Version
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

New American Standard Bible
And whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, "You are the Son of God!"

New Century Version
When evil spirits saw Jesus, they fell down before him and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"

Amplified Bible
Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and screamed out, "You are the Son of God!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Whenever the unclean spirits saw Him, they would fall down before Him and shout, "You are the Son of God!"

Legacy Standard Bible
And whenever the unclean spirits were seeing Him, they would fall down before Him and cry out, saying, "You are the Son of God!"

Berean Standard Bible
And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him and cried out, "You are the Son of God!"

Complete Jewish Bible
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

Darby Translation
And the unclean spirits, when they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried saying, *Thou* art the Son of God.

Easy-to-Read Version
Some people had evil spirits inside them. When the evil spirits saw Jesus, they bowed before him and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when the vncleane spirits sawe him, they fel downe before him, & cried, saying, Thou art the Sonne of God.

George Lamsa Translation
And those who were afflicted with unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried saying, You are indeed the Son of God.

Good News Translation
And whenever the people who had evil spirits in them saw him, they would fall down before him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"

Lexham English Bible
And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God!"

Literal Translation
And when the unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him, and cried out, saying, You are the Son of God!

American Standard Version
And the unclean spirits, whensoever they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

Bible in Basic English
And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, went down before him, crying out, and saying, You are the Son of God.

Hebrew Names Version
The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"

International Standard Version
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down in front of him and scream, "You are the Son of God!"Matthew 14:33; Mark 1:1,23-24; Luke 4:41;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And they who were troubled with impure spirits, when they saw him, fell down, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of Aloha.

Murdock Translation
And they who were afflicted with unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down and cried out, and said: Thou art the Son of God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when the vncleane spirites sawe hym, they fell downe before hym, and cryed, saying: Thou art the sonne of God.

English Revised Version
And the unclean spirits, whensoever they beheld him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

World English Bible
The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, "You are the Son of God!"

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And unclean spirits when they saw him fell down before him and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

Weymouth's New Testament
And the foul spirits, whenever they saw Him, threw themselves down at His feet, screaming out: "You are the Son of God."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whanne thei seyen hym, felden doun to hym, and crieden, seiynge, Thou art the sone of God.

Update Bible Version
And the unclean spirits, whenever they looked at him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, You are the Son of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.

New English Translation
And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

New King James Version
And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, "You are the Son of God."

New Living Translation
And whenever those possessed by evil spirits caught sight of him, the spirits would throw them to the ground in front of him shrieking, "You are the Son of God!"

New Life Bible
When demons saw Him, they got down at His feet and cried out, "You are the Son of God!"

New Revised Standard
Whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, "You are the Son of God!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and the impure spirits, as soon as they beheld him, were falling down to him, and crying aloud, while he was speaking, Thou, art the Son of God!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, "You are the Son of God."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And when the vnclene sprites sawe him they fell doune before him and cryed sayinge: thou arte the sonne of God.

Young's Literal Translation
and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying -- `Thou art the Son of God;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan the foule spretes sawe him, they fell downe before him, and cried, and sayde: Thou art the sonne of God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and when the impure spirits saw him, they threw themselves at his feet, crying out, "thou art the son of God."

THE MESSAGE
Evil spirits, when they recognized him, fell down and cried out, "You are the Son of God!" But Jesus would have none of it. He shut them up, forbidding them to identify him in public.

Simplified Cowboy Version
But whenever a demon saw him, they would always fall down and holler out, "You are the Son of God, his Top Hand!"

Contextual Overview

¹ The next time that Jesus went into the meeting place, a man with a crippled hand was there. ² The Pharisees wanted to accuse Jesus of doing something wrong, and they kept watching to see if Jesus would heal him on the Sabbath. ³ Jesus told the man to stand up where everyone could see him. ⁴ Then he asked, "On the Sabbath should we do good deeds or evil deeds? Should we save someone's life or destroy it?" But no one said a word. ⁵ Jesus was angry as he looked around at the people. Yet he felt sorry for them because they were so stubborn. Then he told the man, "Stretch out your hand." He did, and his bad hand was healed. ⁶ The Pharisees left. And right away they started making plans with Herod's followers to kill Jesus. ⁷ Jesus led his disciples down to the shore of the lake. Large crowds followed him from Galilee, Judea, ⁸ and Jerusalem. People came from Idumea, as well as other places east of the Jordan River. They also came from the region around the cities of Tyre and Sidon. All of these crowds came because they had heard what Jesus was doing. ⁹ He even had to tell his disciples to get a boat ready to keep him from being crushed by the crowds. ¹⁰ After Jesus had healed many people, the other sick people begged him to let them touch him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

unclean: Mark 1:23, Mark 1:24, Mark 5:5, Mark 5:6, Matthew 8:31, Luke 4:41, Acts 16:17, Acts 19:13-17, James 2:19

the Son: Mark 1:1, Matthew 4:3, Matthew 4:6, Matthew 8:29, Matthew 14:33, Luke 8:28

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 5:3 - Dagon was Matthew 12:22 - was Mark 1:25 - rebuked Mark 5:7 - Son Luke 4:35 - Jesus

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.

Psalms 50:21
When you did all of this, I didn't say a word, and you thought, "God is just like us!" But now I will accuse you.

Romans 3:20
God doesn't accept people simply because they obey the Law. No, indeed! All the Law does is to point out our sin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And unclean spirits, when they saw him,.... That is, as the Syriac and Arabic versions read, "they who had unclean spirits": or, as the Ethiopic, "they that were possessed with unclean spirits"; as soon as ever they beheld Christ, though they had never seen him before, and he was an entire stranger to them, yet

fell down before him: the unclean spirits being said to do that, which they that were possessed with them did; and which, notwithstanding their possession of them, they could not prevent, but were obliged to admit of it, as a token of their subjection to Christ:

and even the devils themselves in the men,

cried, saying, thou art the Son of God; a divine person, equal with God; and such his power over them, and his healing all manner of diseases, by a word, or touch, showed him to be.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Unclean spirits - Persons who were possessed of evil spirits.

Thou art the Son of God - The Son of God, by way of eminence. In this place it is equivalent to the Messiah, who was, among the Jews, called the Son of God. Hence, they were charged not to make him known, because he was not desirous that it should be blazoned abroad that he claimed to be the Messiah. He had not yet done what he wished in order to establish his claims to the Messiahship. He was poor and unhonored, and the claim would be treated as that of an impostor. “For the present,” therefore, he did not wish that it should be proclaimed abroad that he was the Messiah. The circumstance here referred to demonstrates the existence of evil spirits. If these were merely diseased or deranged persons, then it is strange that they should be endowed with knowledge so much superior to those in health. If they were under the influence of an order of spirits superior to man - whose appropriate habitation was in another world - then it is not strange that they should know him, even in the midst of his poverty, to be the Messiah, the Son of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Mark 3:11. Thou art the Son of God. — Two MSS., and the later Syriac, have, Thou art the Christ, the Son of God. One of Stephens's MSS. has, Thou art the Holy One of God. A MS. in the library of Leicester has, συ ει ὁ Θεος, υἱος, Thou art GOD, the Son. This is an uncommon reading, which is not confirmed by any MS. yet discovered.