Mark 5:4

For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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 in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not even with chains.

5And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7For every nature of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of the rest is tamed and hath been tamed, by the nature of man.

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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