Mark 5:3
This man lived among the tombs, and it had been impossible to tie him up any longer, even with a chain.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
In Context
2When Jesus got out of the boat a man with an evil spirit came from the graveyard to meet him.
Cross References
Isaiah 65:4They spend the night among the graves and in caves, eating pork and cooking other unclean meats.
Mark 9:18Whenever he has a seizure it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and he becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out of him, but they couldn't do it.”
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 →