Mark 5:4

Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.

Berean Standard Bible

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

3This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.

5Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.

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Cross References

James 3:7All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by 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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