Mark 5:4

For having been bound often with shackles and chains, he had broken the chains and smashed the shackles; and no one had been able to tame him.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

3who had his dwelling place with the tombs; neither had anyone been able to bind him, even with chains.

5And he was always, day and night, among the tombs, or in the mountains, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature.

Matthew Henry on Mark 5:2-21

The Expulsion of Legion. 1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 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. 5 And always, night and… Read the whole commentary →

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