Mark 5:3

This man had (his) dwelling among the kevarim. And no one could keep him tied any longer, even with sharsherot (chains, fetters);

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

In Context

2And as soon as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach stepped out of the sirah (boat), ofen ort (immediately), a man with a ruach hatumah from the kevarim (tombs) of the burial caves met him.

4Because often he had been bound with shackles and the shackles had been torn apart by him, and no one had the koach (power) to subdue him.

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Cross References

Isaiah 65:4Which remain among the kevarim, 1 and spend the night in closed places, 1 which eat basar hachazir, 1 and broth of piggulim + 65:4 Lv 7:18 (unclean meat) in their vessels; 1

Mark 9:18And whenever it seizes him, it throws him into convulsions and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. And I told your talmidim in order that they might cast it out, and they did not have the koach.

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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