Mark 3:11

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.

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!"

Contemporary English Version
And whenever any evil spirits saw Jesus, they would fall to the ground and shout, "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."

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

¹Then he went back in the meeting place where he found a man with a crippled hand. The Pharisees had their eyes on Jesus to see if he would heal him, hoping to catch him in a Sabbath infraction. He said to the man with the crippled hand, "Stand here where we can see you." ⁴ Then he spoke to the people: "What kind of action suits the Sabbath best? Doing good or doing evil? Helping people or leaving them helpless?" No one said a word. ⁵He looked them in the eye, one after another, angry now, furious at their hard-nosed religion. He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." He held it out—it was as good as new! The Pharisees got out as fast as they could, sputtering about how they would join forces with Herod's followers and ruin him. ⁷Jesus went off with his disciples to the sea to get away. But a huge crowd from Galilee trailed after them—also from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, across the Jordan, and around Tyre and Sidon—swarms of people who had heard the reports and had come to see for themselves. He told his disciples to get a boat ready so he wouldn't be trampled by the crowd. He had healed many people, and now everyone who had something wrong was pushing and shoving to get near and touch him. ¹¹Evil 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.

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
God said, "What have you done! The voice of your brother's blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you'll get nothing but curses from this ground; you'll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You'll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You'll be a homeless wanderer on Earth."

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.