Mark 5:4

For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he tore the chains apart and broke the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

Text-Critical English NT

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 lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him, not even with chains.

5Night and day, on the mountains and among the tombs, he would continually cry out and cut himself with stones.

Read all of Mark 5

Cross References

James 3:7Every species of beast, bird, reptile, and sea creature can be tamed and has 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Mark 5:4